Little Big Man
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1970
DVD Release : 29 April, 2003 |
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One of most Memorable Films of the 70's
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Adapted to the screen from the Thomas Berger novel, Little Big Man tells the sweeping story of Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) told by the character himself interviewed in an old folks home as a centenarian. (Well over 100 years of age).
If there was one word to describe this film it would have to be charming, because it crosses many genres: drama, comedy, western, adventure, war, historical, biographical etc. One of the top twenty films made in the seventies, aside from The Godfather & Godfather 2, this movie would have to be one of the most memorable.
Jack Crabb's story of his life is a collection of anecdotes from the time he was kidnapped by Indians and raised as one of their own, to then be thrown back into the "white" mans world.
Really this film reveals the American Indians' civil and sane view of life over the white man's narrow and aggressive natures during that time.
Leaving his tribe, Jack Crabb is placed with the Pendrake family, the father is the town's paster and his beautiful though sexually frustrated wife played wonderfully by the beautiful Faye Dunaway. It is here, witnessing Mrs. Louise Pendrakes adulterous nature that he first begins to discover the insanities and hypocrisies of the "white man".
The saddest part of the film is Crabb's return to the Cheyenne, where he marries a lovely squaw and eventually has a child.
It is here he reunites with "Grandfather" or "Old Lodge Skins" (Chief Dan George) who deservedly won the Oscar that year for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The only way to describe "grandfather" is wise, simple, funny and confused about the white man's ways. He asks Little Big Man many questions about the white man's behaviour and customs and Jack Crabb, most of the time, does not have an answer.
The United States Calvary one morning descends upon the native village and massacres every man, woman and child. This raid was led by the infamous George Armstrong Custer, (Richard Mulligan) and is based on true historical events. Crabb's wife and baby are brutally killed by the soldiers though Crabb escapes to return to the white man's world as a drunk.
Many mishaps and circumstances finally lead Crabb to join the Seventh Calvary under Custer's command as a scout, and is known in the regiment as "mule skinner". It is here that Crabb seeks revenge for the murder of his family.
Grabb takes part in the famous battle of The Little Big Horn, as the soldiers are massacred, his life is saved once again because of an Indian from his past recognizes him before he is scalped.
My favourite and more than likely the funniest scene in the film is "Grandfather's" death, where he "knows" it is time for him to die and move to a better place. He lies down, closes his eyes and it begins to rain. He opens his eyes and asks if he has arrived to the great pastures...funny yet heartfelt.
It has been said that the seventies was the decade where good filmmaking lost its way.
Viewing Little Big Man once again, this statement is false beyond a doubt.
"Little Big Man" is a truly great film to own and view time and again.
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