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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime
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Release:
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Director:
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Woody Allen
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Actors:
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Lonny Chapman,
James Anderson,
Janet Margolin,
Jacquelyn Hyde,
Howard Storm,
Marcel Hillaire,
Dan Frazer,
Jan Merlin,
Mark Gordon,
Micil Murphy,
Minnow Moskowitz,
Nate Jacobson,
Grace Bauer,
Ethel Sokolow,
Woody Allen
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Duration:
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85 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)108.5
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Plot Summary:
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This film is presented as a documentary on the flair of an unskilful, trivial bad guy called Virgil Starkwell. It describes the early infancy and young womanhood of Virgil, his fizzle at a harmonious shoot, and his obsession with bank robberies. The shoot uses a reveal in storytelling and interviews with his issue, friends and acquaintances.
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Tags:
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Take the Money and Run
Woody Allen hams it up brilliantly as a neurotic jailbird in this spoof crime-documentary. Part Truffaut, part Keystone Cops, it's essentially Allen's first original feature as writer and director
All artists profit from their neuroses, but few manage it so blatantly as Woody Allen. By the mid 60s, Allen was earning $6000 a week as a gag writer, stand-up and TV scriptwriter, so the move to the big screen was inevitable, if only to get into the really big bucks. Take The Money And Run, his directorial debut, is a low-budget crime documentary spoof. Part Truffaut, part Keystone Cops it neatly encapsulates early Allen: neurotic, slapstick, auteuristic.
Allen is Virgil Starkwell, a loser of course, a petty criminal and fantasist; failed cellist and pool s...
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