VideoDisc 20th Century FOX Video
"Take the Money and Run" Palomar Pictures International RCA VIDEODISC
CED :: Capacitance Electronic Disc System
85 Minutes / Color
Rated R
© 1969 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
Manufactured & Distributed © 1982 Twentieth Century-Fox Video, Inc. Starring:
Woody Allen
Mickey Rose
" Woody Allen has emerged as one of the most important filmmakers in Hollywood. That he has done so by working primarily in comedy is all the more amazing. His first feature film as writer-director-star, "Take the Money and Run" introduces the typical Woody Allen hero, a hero that continues through to most of his current films.
"Take the Money and Run" is informed by two strands of comedy that Allen has used to virtually build all of his films: stand-up comedy and parodies of other films. Certainly, "Take the Money and Run" is not as cinematically self-assured as the films that followed his earlier triumph, but it is delightfully eccentric and way-out. It sends out comic bits like a machine gun, but an accurate one. "Take the Money and Run" uses a kind of crazy documentary technique and wise-guy one-liners to tell the story of Virgil Starkwell, a convicted criminal. We also learn that Virgil's wife is named Louise, the name of Woody's then wife, Louise Lasser.
Although Virgil Starkwell may be a feared criminal, he seems more one of life's jokes. He attempts to rob a bank, but no one can read the hold-up note. He breaks out of jail by carving a bar of soap into the shape of a gun but chooses to make his escape on a rainy night. The juxtaposition of Virgil and Louise lends the film that all-important human touch so that we don't just laugh at poor Virgil. We think about the seriousness behind his total incompetence at living life. But first we laugh. " Used videodisc.
This item is approximately the size of a large record (over 12" x 12")
It has not been tested and has some wear to the label.
The plastic part is slightly yellowed and dirty.
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