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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 9780792861102 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0792861108 Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: 1006670 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 06, 2004 Running Time: 85 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: 1969 Editorial Review: Product Description: The gags come every 30 seconds (Boxoffice) in this delightful satire (Hollywood Citizen-News) from film legend Woody Allen in his brilliant first outing as writer star and director. Allen is hilarious (NY Daily News) and never fails to steal the audience s heart (LA Herald-Examiner) in this inspired comedy that s nothing less than nuttiness triumphant (Look Magazine)!Virgil Starkwell (Allen) having no talent for his beloved cello turns to larceny as a career. Unfailingly optimistic he is nevertheless a complete criminal failure although his prison breakouts are often successful. And with the support of his loving wife Louise (Janet Margolin) he may yet pull off a successful bank heist if he can just manage to write out a legible stickup note!System Requirements: Running Time 85 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 027616908315 Manufacturer No: 1006670 Amazon.com essential video: Woody Allen's feature-film debut, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary that combines sight gags, sketchlike scenes, and standup jokes at rat-a-tat speed, looks positively primitive compared to his mature work. Primitive, but awfully funny. Allen plays Virgil Starkwell, a music-loving nebbish who turns to a life of crime at an early age and, undaunted by his utter and complete failure to pull off a single successful robbery, continues his unbroken spree of bungled heists and prison breaks even after he marries and raises a family. Narrator Jackson Beck, whose stentorian voice of authority makes a perfect foil for Starkwell's absurd exploits, lobs one droll quip after another with deadpan seriousness. Though spotty, Allen tosses so many jokes into the mix that it hardly matters and when they hit they are often hilarious: the chain gang posing as cousins to their old-woman hostage ("We're very close," Virgil explains to a dim cop), arguing with a dotty movie director who is supposed to be their cover for a bank robbery, Virgil's escape attempt with a bar of soap. Allen spoofs decades of crime films, everything from I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Bonnie and Clyde, but you don't have to know the movies to enjoy this goofy, sometimes clumsy, but quite clever comedy. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Extremely Funny But Too Bad About the DVD!I wouldn't call myself a Woody Allen fan but I thought this film was simply hilarious and most of the jokes and gags hold up well even today and if you like off-beat humour ala "There's Something About Mary" or even "Saturday Night Live" you will find a lot to like about this film. The jokes come thick and fast and although not all of them score, the vast majority of them do making it a comedy that rewards repeated viewing. The only problem is with the dvd which is not restored in any ... Read More Rating:  - Grit your teeth!If you absolutely love Woody Allen, you'll love this movie. Otherwise, it's terribly slow and awfully boring. Rating: - After fifteen minutes he wanted to marry her--and after half an hour he completely gave up the idea of stealing her purseTake The Money And Run is the first movie Woody Allen ever wrote, directed and starred in all at once. Even early on in his film career, Woody Allen shows genius and promise to grow much, much further than most artists ever go. The film's plot moves along at a good pace and the acting increases the quality of the movie--and the jokes. The film, as you may well know, is a spoof of documentaries called a "mockumentary." The film purports to show the life and times of a petty criminal named ... Read More Rating: - Young Genius in Full FlowerWhen the history of 20th century comedy is written, someone will tell the story of the geniuses who emerged from the working class neighborhoods of New York's outer boroughs: Queens, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Neil Simon will make the list, along with Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen. There are others, of course. Together they make up one of the most remarkable flowerings of comic talent in American history. Woody's talent sprang from him fully formed. His basic gift is in full evidence in this early picture. ... Read More Rating: - Full Screen is BetterExcellent, witty, vintage Woody Allen, and I am so pleased it is released in full screen. Widescreen versions add nothing to films, and people who feel that they do are pompous cinema snobs. Rather than look at two black lines on my 42" flat screen HDTV, I like the films up close and personal. I would much rather see people's faces and the little details of a scene than the booring, blurred panorama. For the vast majority of films, it is the faces and expressions of the protagonists that are of interest, ... Read More |
