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Take the Money and Run
Woody Allen`s directorial debut, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, is a hilarious mockumentary about the life and crimes of one Virgil Starkwell--a man who always ends up getting his glasses crushed. Familiar newsreel voice Jackson Beck narrates the tale of th...
Woody Allen`s directorial debut, TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN, is a hilarious mockumentary about the life and crimes of one Virgil Starkwell--a man who always ends up getting his glasses crushed. Familiar newsreel voice Jackson Beck narrates the tale of the hapless criminal and his ridiculous plans that repeatedly blow up in his face--sometimes literally. When Starkwell, played by Allen, falls in love with Louise (Janet Margolin), he tries to change, but he comes to realize that he is a born criminal--and a born loser. Allen fills the film with sight gags galore including his escape from prison using a gun made out of soap and then getting caught in the rain, and his parents being interviewed wearing Groucho Marx disguises. Many bits from his stand-up routine are also scattered throughout the screenplay, co-written with Mickey Rose. Numerous themes in this film show up in Allen`s later work, but here they are played exclusively for laughs--and the laughs come nonstop as Virgil puts together a gang and plans a big bank job that he believes will get his family back on their feet. Allen`s wonderful documentary style influenced such later mockumentaries as THIS IS SPINAL TAP and THE RUTLES. It is relentless in its verbal and visual attack on the senses--a worthy debut for a filmmaker who changed the face of comedy in the decades following.
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