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- 1970
- M/PG
- Cinerama Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 25 m
- 1970
- M/PG
- Cinerama Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 25 m
Directed By: Woody Allen
Written By: Mickey Rose, Woody Allen
- 1970
- M/PG
- Cinerama Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 25 m
- 1970
- M/PG
- Cinerama Releasing Corporation
- 1 h 25 m
Take the Money and Run
67
7.5
Directed By: Woody Allen
Written By: Mickey Rose, Woody Allen
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
67
50% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy—something very special and eccentric and funny.
Woody Allen's first film as a director, in which he plays Virgil Starkwell, Public Schmuck Number One. This ragged collection of gags and sketch fragments was reportedly pieced together from an incoherent mass of footage by ace film doctor Ralph Rosenblum.
Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run has some very funny moments, and you'll laugh a lot, but in the last analysis it isn't a very funny movie. It isn't really a movie at all. I suspect it's a list of a lot of things Woody Allen wanted to do in a movie someday, and the sad thing is he did them all at once.
Tale of the eagerly criminal career of Virgil Starkwell is as unpredictably structured as Annie Hall, if not yet anything like as sustained in tone and mood. But it has plenty of hilarious jokes and concepts, like the ventriloquists' dummies at prison visiting time, and the return home from a chain gang break with five shackled cons in tow.
The life and crimes of Virgil Starkwell, a petty hoodlum who finds love with a laundress, Louise, in between botched blags and stints on a chain gang.
A few good laughs in an 85-minute film do not a comedy make. Basically a running gag about hero Allen's ineptitude as a professional crook, scatters its fire in so many directions it has to hit at least several targets. But satire on documentary coverage of criminal flop is overextended and eventually tiresome.
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