Take the Money and Run

Name: Take the Money and Run
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: July 10, 1970
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Howard Storm, Jacquelyn Hyde, James Anderson, Jan Merlin, Janet Margolin

1970

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Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Release Date: July 10, 1970 | PG

Starring: Howard Storm, Jacquelyn Hyde, James Anderson, Jan Merlin, Janet Margolin, Lonny Chapman, Marcel Hillaire, Mark Gordon, Micil Murphy, Woody Allen

Summary: The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.

Director: Woody Allen

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 85 min

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Vincent Canby

Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy—something very special and eccentric and funny. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Woody Allen's first film as a director, in which he plays Virgil Starkwell, Public Schmuck Number One. This ragged collection of gags and sketch fragments was reportedly pieced together from an incoherent mass of footage by ace film doctor Ralph Rosenblum. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run has some very funny moments, and you'll laugh a lot, but in the last analysis it isn't a very funny movie. It isn't really a movie at all. I suspect it's a list of a lot of things Woody Allen wanted to do in a movie someday, and the sad thing is he did them all at once. Read full review

Empire David Parkinson

The life and crimes of Virgil Starkwell, a petty hoodlum who finds love with a laundress, Louise, in between botched blags and stints on a chain gang. Read full review

Time Out London Staff (Not Credited)

Tale of the eagerly criminal career of Virgil Starkwell is as unpredictably structured as Annie Hall, if not yet anything like as sustained in tone and mood. But it has plenty of hilarious jokes and concepts, like the ventriloquists' dummies at prison visiting time, and the return home from a chain gang break with five shackled cons in tow. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

A few good laughs in an 85-minute film do not a comedy make. Basically a running gag about hero Allen's ineptitude as a professional crook, scatters its fire in so many directions it has to hit at least several targets. But satire on documentary coverage of criminal flop is overextended and eventually tiresome.

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