Little Big Man

Director: Matthias Glasner, Michael Zinberg, Arthur Penn, Arthur Serevetas

Overview

"Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguid

Product Details

Release Date:	04/29/2003
UPC:	0097363772149
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:19:00
Sales rank:	11,201

Special Features

Closed Caption;Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 tvs ; English subtitles ; Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround ; English Stereo Surround ; French Mono

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dustin Hoffman	Jack Crabb
Chief Dan George	Old Lodge Skins,Crow Scout,Crow Scout
Faye Dunaway	Mme. Pendrake
Martin Balsam	Merriweather
Richard Mulligan	General George A. Custer
Jeff Corey	Wild Bill Hickok
Amy Eccles	Sunshine,Sunshine
Robert Little Star	Little Horse
Cal Bellini	Younger Bear
Carol Androsky	Caroline,Caroline Crabb
Kelly Jean Peters	Olga
Ruben Moreno	Shadow that Comes at Night
Steve Shemayne	Burns Red in the Sun
William Hickey	Historian
James Anderson	Sergeant
Jesse Vint	Lieutenant
Alan Oppenheimer	Major
Thayer David	Rev. Silas Pendrake
Philip Kenneally	Mr. Kane,Mr. Kane
Jack Bannon	Captain
Ray Dimas	Young Jack Crabb
Alan Howard	Adolescent Jack Crabb
Jack Mullaney	Card Player
Steve Miranda	Younger Bear as a Child
Lou Cutell	Deacon
M. Emmet Walsh	Shotgun Guard
Emily Cho	Digging Bear
Cecelia Kootenay	Little Elk
Linda Dyer	Corn Woman
Norman Nathan	Pawnee
Helen Verbit	Madame
Bert Conway	Bartender
Earl Rosell	Giant Troop
Ken Mayer	Sergeant
Bud Cokes	Man at Bar
Rory O'Brien	Assassin
Tracy Hotchner	Flirtatious Girl
Don Brodie	Stage Passenger
Herbert Nelson	Actor
Dessie Bad Bear	Buffalo Wallow Woman
John Hammond	Composer,Composer

Technical Credits

Calder Willingham

Thomas Berger

Stuart Millar	Producer
Calder Willingham	Screenwriter
Hal Needham	Stunts
Logan Frazee	Special Effects
Dick Smith	Special Effects
Thomas Berger	Screenwriter
Bud Alper	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Marvin Kosberg	Sound Effects
Marc Laub	Sound Effects
Al Overton Jr.	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Richard Portman	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Gene Lasko	Producer
Arthur Penn	Producer

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Turn That Thing On
2. Living Indian
3. No Longer a Boy
4. Welcome to Your New Home
5. My Religion Period
6. A Swindler
7. Natural Born Gunfighter
8. A Respectable Storekeeper
9. Cheyenne Country
10. Muleskinner
11. Death and Life
12. The Indian Nations
13. Turning Pure Indian
14. Invisible
15. From Renegade to Drunk
16. Old Friends
17. A Custer Decision
18. Little Big Horn
19. A World With No Center
20. Sometimes the Magic Works...

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Editorial Reviews

Little Big Man was one of a group of early 1970s Westerns that found a precedent for the atrocities of the Vietnam War in the history of white westward expansion at the expense of Native Americans. In the process, Arthur Penn and screenwriter Calder Willingham take apart the Western itself, sending up myths of white "civilization" and its proper violence while lending a humorous and poignant slant to the mythic "noble savages" -- not to mention casting actual Native American actors. Primed for Western iconoclasm by an ever more vigorous antiwar movement and counterculture, audiences turned Little Big Man into a surprise hit; Chief Dan George garnered a New York Film Critics Circle prize and an Oscar nomination for his performance. One of the most successful of the period's revisionist Westerns, Little Big Man stands as a timely and wittily caustic indictment of western myths and the contemporary legacy of manifest destiny.