Take the Money and Run
Take the Money and Run

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- 72/100 based on 30,846 votes
  • Released: 1969
  • Runtime: 85 mins
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  • Studio: Palomar Pictures International
  • Genres: Crime - Comedy

This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Take the Money and Run:

Woody Allen
Janet Margolin
Marcel Hillaire
Jacquelyn Hyde
Lonny Chapman
Jan Merlin

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This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell. It describes the early childhood and youth of Virgil, his failure at a musical career, and his obsession with bank robberies. The film uses a voice over narrative and interviews with his family, friends and acquaintances.

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CinePassion - 9/10 by Fernando F. CroceA work of despairing acuity dressed up as a skittering gagfest.
Variety - 8/10 by Variety StaffA few good laughs in an 85-minute film do not a comedy make.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyThis good natured, episodic spoof of gangster movies was Woody Allen's first film as a director.
Chicago Reader - 7/10 by Dave KehrWoody 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.
New York Times - 7/10 by Vincent CanbyAllen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy—something very special and eccentric and funny.
Empire Magazine - 6/10 by David ParkinsonThe 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.
Chicago Sun-Times - 6/10 by Roger EbertWoody 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.
User Review - 10/10 by Stefan AThis film is very funny for all that. It doesn't propose to be clever or sophisticated, this is the birth of Allen Humour and for a lot of his fans remains one of their most cherished films of all.
User Review - 10/10 by Ryan NQuite possibly the funniest Woody Allen film ever.
User Review - 10/10 by Stuart KWoody Allen's first proper film as actor, writer and director. He was lucky to have been offered the chance to do so, and he was rightfully wary, as he'd seen how Hollywood worked. Since this film, he had absolute creative control over all his films, and it started his period of 'early, funny films'. A pseudo-documentary, it tells the story of Virgil Starkwell (Woody), born into a poor family, he tries playing the cello in a marching band, when that doesn't work out, he turns to a life of crime, which would have gone well if he wasn't a bumbling idiot. He steals money from a security van, but the gun he has is a lighter, so he goes to jail, and his attempts to escape all go wrong when the gun he made from a bar of soap and shoe polish dissolve into bubbles during a rain storm. But, when he's released, Virgil meets Louise (Janet Margolin) who he falls for and tries to keep his criminal life a secret from her, but even that doesn't last when he's thrown into jail for armed robbery, only for him to escape, so he and Louise go on the run from state to state, but Virgil can't hold down a job due to him trying to rob banks and shops. This is a hilarious film, with some very funny moments in it. It shows what a natural comedian Woody was, both good with verbal comedy and physical comedy as well, it's just a shame he grew up after Annie Hall (1977), as he was at his best with comedy like this, which is absurb, clever and hilarious.

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