Distributor:
MRA Entertainment Certificate: PG | 82 minutes
Director: Woody Allen
Cast:Woody Allen, Janet Margolin Extras: Yes
Take the money and run was the first intimation to the
world at large that Woody
Allen’s film career was going
to be something special, he had
of course been working in stand
up through much of the sixties
and had made a couple of movies
but here Allen had complete
control, writing, directing and
starring in a high profile
movie.
Taking a film documentary type feel Allen plays Virgil
Starkwell who despite being highly intelligent embarks on a gumball
machine robbing spree, wanted by the police under five different
aliases.
When Virgil falls in love with Louise (Janet Margolin)he
decides to pull off one big bank robbery to furnish their life together
– however things don’t go exactly according to plan.
Full of great visual jokes Take The Money and Run is very
funny, a clear forerunner of the surreal delights of Bananas and
Sleeper. The movie can be seen as Allen setting out his stall as a
film-maker, it’s also pretty hilarious.
