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Summary: I have thought and smoked on the matter
Review: yeah, about time, I thought this would be in the dvd legal limbo as long as the grass grows and the sky is blue. "Jack, sometimes I had the most deliciously wicked thoughts about you" (Mrs. Penndrake). "Looks like their wittling you down pretty good Mr. Merryweather", "Every buiness has a particle of risk, Jack" Mr. Merryweather......need i say more about my favorite movie.... ok, one more.... "have you met my new wife? she cooks dog very well, she is a snake women, they copulate with horses, she says she doesn't but I think she is lying" chief Dan George. The movie starts slow as compared to how more modern movies are paced, but after twenty min. it picks up pace and is wonderful.
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Summary: It's about gosh darn time
Review: At Last!!!!! I can't believe it's taken so long to put this awesome movie onto DVD! Now I'm going to start complaining that it's not a Criterion release.
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Summary: The Other American Hero
Review: History tells us that there were no survivors of the Battle of Little Big Horn, also referred to as "Custer's Last Stand". The story goes that a troop of U. S. Cavalrymen in the late 1800's, led by the controversial General George A. Custer, were surprised, surrounded and savagely butchered by a tribe (or tribes) of hostile Native Americans, and that no white man escaped the incident.But if there were no survivors, there could be no witness to prove it. What if there was a survivor, one who knew of the events leading up to this catastrophe, one who was specifically and intentionally spared the fate of his comrades? As this film opens, we see a 121-year old man being interviewed sometime back in the mid-sixties who claims to be just that. His narrative transports us back to a day when he and his sister were the only survivors of a wagon train ambush as his family crossed the Great Plains. Ten-year old Jack Crabb is found, adopted, and (more or less) accepted into a Cheyenne tribe who refer to themselves as The Human Beings. From that point, he goes back and forth being "rescued" by the whites, then reunited by fate time and again with his adopted tribe. Jack Crabb, aka Little Big Man (his given Human Being name), shares with us, in the course of the journey of his life, not only a view of what life was/ may have been in the Old West, but numerous views from vast perspectives over time. We see nobility, hypocrisy, jealousy, alienation, fulfillment in family and devastating loss, all the things in life that happen to us just when we think we've figured it out. We also get a vital glimpse of a culture that is closer to the earth and life than our socially conditioned minds could conceive, and realize this story is not just about CUSTER'S last stand at all. After the quirky character roles he established himself with in The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy, star Dustin Hoffmann imprinted himself indelibly in the movie goer's psyche as the Wild West Candide, an American Siddartha, considered by many to be his ultimate role. The scope and pace of director Arthur Penn's epic is sweeping, almost overwhelming, and ultimately rewarding and provocative, worthy of multiple viewings. Little Big Man is a little known classic and it's almost appalling that it has taken this long to surface on DVD. But it is finally here, and enthusiasts of film literature are in for quite a treat. Though there are some indications of viewpoints and values of the time it was made, there is nothing dated about this film at all. Jack Crabb's life journey is indeed a contemporary legend for the rest of us, one after which you never quite see life the same way afterwards.
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Summary: CLASSIC WESTERN SATIRE
Review: Dustin Hoffman at the height of his powers with Faye Dunaway at her stunningly beautiful best.A must see!
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Summary: A must for DVD-release...
Review: One of the best movies of all times - but why isn't it available on DVD??? Uncomprehensible...
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Summary: An American Film Classic
Review: A true American classic. It explores the violence, narcisissm, greed, sexual dysfunction, and the plain old human dumbness that made this country great. Sounds like a total downer, right? No. This story is wrapped in the glow of the Old West with a beautifully filmed, concisely scripted series of tales that follow Dustin Hoffman who represents modern America, caught up in the sins and lies of our fore-fathers, as he grows from child to man as a white man living among the Indian tribes. The Indians are not protrayed steroetypically as savages or as The Noble Braves. They are people too, people filled with self doubt, greed, longings for power and love and a desire to survive and to maintain their culture. Just as the whites are not portrayed as blind greed powered scythes sweeping down the cultures that lie before them as we supposedly conquered the west. The white man is portrayed as brave, as callow, as confused, as sexually repressed, as truely caring people. People, like their counter parts in the Indian culture, caught up in something so big that they find it impossible to sweep away the veil of confusion that hangs before their eyes when they view the world around them. This film is like our history, at times enlightening, at times confusing, sometimes enthralling, other times repulsive, sometimes joyous, but more often as life really is, filled with sadness and confusion and frustration. Those emotions we feel every day of our lives. As man has done every day since his first sentient thought. This movie is a treasure, much like King Kong, Citizen Kane, The Wild Bunch, The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, West Side Story, Pinnochio, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Dirty Harry. All films that stood at the lead of changing cinema of their times. They were among the first to reflect new ideologies, new mind sets, new experiences in our culture in their stories, their look and their audeience appeal. When this comes out on DVD, I hope it is done with justice, with the extras and the opportunities to learn why this film is so important to our cinema through the extras such as voice overs and narrations to be enjoyed once we have absorbed the film itself. Grab this one right away, you will always find it worth watching from the first time to the last time you choose to view it. This film is Amercia personified, both the good and the bad. Nuff Said.
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Summary: "Viewing Time" well spent
Review: I truly enjoyed this 2 1/2 hour movie. If Little Big Man a.k.a. Jack Grabb is fiction, Thomas Berger, the author of the tale has done some intensive research to bring it to life. It gives a very accurate description of past events and it dares portray General George Armstrong Custer as he really was, i.e. a fame seeking, irrational killer of defenseless peaceful Indian women and children. The quasi-total extermination in the "millions" of a noble race, will linger and will forever cloud our proud and not so proud american history. I cannot wait for the sequel movie "The return of Little Big Man" based of Thomas Berger's sequential novel.
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Summary: Little Big Man
Review: 'Little Big Man' is an incredible movie. If I had to choose only one out of all others to ever see again in my life, it would be this one. Rich with the ironic comedy of life (as well as the tragedies)It is History come to life. With truly great acting by Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George and Faye dunaway. Historically accurate and fantastically entertaining.
When you've seen a movie as often as I've seen this one, and it never fails to bring both laughter and tears you know you have a classic . If you have never seen it,you are missing out.
I hope it is released on DVD soon!
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Summary: One of the Best American Films of All Time!
Review: Little Big Man is quite possibly the most enjoyable, informative film concerning the American west ever made. The Indians are portrayed in a very natural, human way as opposed to noble savages. Dustin Hoffman gives a magnificient performance as Jack Crabb or Little Big Man (his Cheyenne Indian name). Attacked by the Pawnee as a child, adopted by the Cheyenne and turned into a Cheyenne "human being", Little Big Man walks between the Indian and White Man's World, never fitting too well in either. He endures all types of suffering and adventure, falls on his face and gets back up. The best parts of the film are when he continually meets up with his Indian Grandfather after some hair raising experiences. This film should be on every American's top ten list, truly great filmmaking, its shot beautifully too. Well worth seeing!
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Summary: a reflection of truth
Review: One of the best movies that I have ever watched in my life that is telling you a story,a heartbreaking story of our close past through an Indians eye.A different view,about our heroes being everything other than hero to other people.We can get alot of lessons.
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