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Release Date: 06 July, 2004 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $11.96 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: |
Take the Money and Run Reviews
More Nutritious Than A Bowl Of Steam!
Woody definitely hit the comedy goldmine here with the story of Virgil Starkwell, World's Most Incompetent Criminal!
Done in a Prison/Heist movie meets Documentary style, Woody Allen and his inspired cast take you for a hilarious ride through the underworld with one hilarious mishap after another coming at you at machine gun pace. Punctuated by a great Marvin Hamlisch score and the authoritative yet clipped over-serious narration of the late Jackson Beck underlining the most absurd and hilarious moments, this is one movie that you just cannot tear yourself away from or stop laughing at and with.
Thrill and howl as you witness Virgil's cello virtuosity (LOL) in a marching band, his attempt to escape a chain gang that results in his imprisonment with an insurance salesman and his attempts at raising a family while on the run.
A comedy classic if ever there was! The Best of THE EARLY FUNNY ONES!
Hilarious first feature from Woody Allen
Allen's directorial debut is a joy from beginning to end. By no means does it have the depth and sophistication of his later work, but it's consistently funny, with one gag running into the next, and there are teasing moments of that blur between fantasy and reality that characterized his films.
The story concerns one Virgil Starkwell, a bespectacled failure who resorts to crime for a living, and can't even be a success at that. He tries to stage a bank robbery, but it flops when the tellers start arguing over whether his handwritten note says "I have a gub" or "I have a gun". It's told partly in a spoof-documentary style that foreshadows Allen's later full-blown mockumentary, Zelig (1983).
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