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Murders
| Little Murders | Richard Butler's favourite Film |
| 1971, 110 mins, USA | Director - Alan Arkin |
| Producer - Jack Bradsky,Elliot Gould | Screenplay - Jules Feiffer |
| Actors/Actresses - E.Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizebeth Wilson, D.sutherland, Alan Arkin | (20th Century Fox) |
| Alan Arkin, making a most impressive directorial debut, has made a film that is not only funny but devastating in its emotional impact. Arkin's actor play very broadly,just at the dge of the caricatures they are in Jules Feiffer's screenplay. But they fill in the outlines with such a wealth of human detail that its impossible not to identify with them. both comdey and horror hit closer to home. | |
| Co-producer Elliot gould plays a photographer who was successful until he began to 'lose the people' in his pictures, and found it unnecessary or impossible either to fight or really 'feel'. into his life comes Marcia Rodd,...a girl who would like to mould him into 'a strong, vital, self-assured man, that i can protect and take care of'. | |
| Then the world gets in the way, and Feiffer once and for all stops being the amiably satiric cartoonist, and hurtles towards a painful conclusion : that the only way for the world is to adopt insanity. | |
| Vincent gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson & Jon Korkes are excellant as Rodd's extraordinary family. Juicy 'bits' are played by Arkin as a paranoid detective, Lou Jacobi, as a judge who remebers his days on the Lower East Side; and D.Sutherland as a hip minister. |
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