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  • 1968
  • PG-13
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 1968
  • PG-13
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 39 m
The Night They Raided Minsky's

Summary A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

Directed By: William Friedkin

Written By: Arnold Schulman, Sidney Michaels, Norman Lear, Rowland Barber

  • 1968
  • PG-13
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 1968
  • PG-13
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 39 m

The Night They Raided Minsky's

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

Directed By: William Friedkin

Written By: Arnold Schulman, Sidney Michaels, Norman Lear, Rowland Barber

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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63% Positive
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38% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Jason Robards and Norman Wisdom brilliantly perform knockabout stage routines in director William Friedkin's energetically patchwork portrayal of New York burlesque in the 1920s. [23 May 2008, p.10E]
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75
It's a strange and very busy movie, but it has a chaotic kind of charm to it that'll appeal to those who like bold and oftentimes ridiculous comedy movies from this era.
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75
This fun film is filled with loads of laughs, atmosphere, and nostalgia.
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70
Unlike "Funny Girl," the screenplay is rich, not in stereotypes (mothers, accents), but in anecdotes, and there is a wonderful confrontation between Jason Robards, as a slick, sleazy burlesque entertainer, and the owner of a restaurant, "a man from principle," over an order of bagels, which are thrown, one by one, to the floor, with rage and elegance.
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60
It's lightweight and disorganized; it's a shambles, yet a lot of it is charming, and it has a wonderful seedy chorus line--a row of pudgy girls with faces like slipped discs.
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60
Norman Lear's period peek at a peculiarly American form of entertainment - burlesque - is most successful in its art direction and nostalgic recapturing of New York's lower East Side during its most hoydenish period.
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This 1968 William Friedkin comedy set in 1925 New York will be appreciated by those who enjoy the corny humor and bawdy broads of burlesque.
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Production Company Tandem Productions
Release Date Dec 21, 1968
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Sometimes being a nice girl is too much to BARE!
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