Little Big Man
Summary:
Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story of being the only white survivor... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman - (Jack Crabb)
Faye Dunaway - (Mrs. Pendrake)
Martin Balsam - (Merriweather)
Richard Mulligan - (Gen. George A. Custer)
Chief Dan George - (Old Lodge Skins)
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Review:
Little Big Man was one of a group of early 1970s Westerns that found a precedent for the atrocities of the Vietnam War in the history of white westward expansion at the expense of Native Americans. In the process, Arthur Penn and screenwriter Calder Willingham take apart the Western itself, sending up myths of white "civilization" an... Continue >>
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