Take the Money and Run Streaming
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Take the Money and Run Streaming.
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Though I usually relish Woody Allen’s more original work, I’m one of many filmgoers whose heart level-headed belongs to his earlier, anything-for-a-laugh, anarchistic comedies like Bananans, Sleeper, and this one. Engage the Money And Race was Woody Allen’s first steady film to utter himself and it remains one of his funniest. Disguised as a documentary, this 1969 film tells the hilarious chronicle of Virgil Starkweather, the world’s most inept (if stupidly optomistic) thief. Like most of Woody Allen’s early films, everything is played almost solely for the laughs it might provide and nearly forty years later, it all holds up very well. Lots of hilarious stuff in here (at times, this film is the funniest Mel Brooks film that Mel Brooks never made) but my personal well-liked bits would have to include: Virgil’s parents who disguise their indentities by wearing Groucho Marx glasses but will be familiar to anyone whose seen any of Allen’s films, Virgil’s attempt to take a bank is foiled when none of the clerks can read his abominable handwriting, another robbery goes dismal when a rival gang decides to hold the same bank at the same time, Virgil’s attempt to run from prison by making a fraudulent gun out of soap is ruined when it starts to rain, the eye of Woody Allen on a southern chain gang (and being punished by being locked in the hole with an insurance salesman), and especially the scene where a man Virgil attempts to mug turns out to be not only a childhood school friend but an undercover cop as well. Directing with a wild-anything-goes-spirit, Woody Allen gives one of his first (and best) “born loser” performances as Virgil. Amongst all the madness, the film also presents a bizarrely sweet worship tale between Virgil and his wife, who is well-played by the graceful (and the sadly no longer with us) Janet Margolin. Always underappreciated, Margolin was one of those forgotten, at times almost painfully vulnerable actresses that one can’t support but descend in adore with everytime she appears on shroud. Though overshadowed by the later Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow, Janet Margolin was Woody Allen’s first unlikely appreciate interest (in both film and briefly right life) and they have a strong chemistry together that adds distinguished heart to a wild film. Catch the Money and Speed remains hilarious and will be enjoyed by both fans of Woody Allen and classic film comedy.
This is the best of Woody Allen’s strictly-for-laughs movies. The interview segments which he uses for both comedic and dramatic purposes in many of his films are probably the most fun here, particularly his “parents” who wear disguises. The gags are worthy better than in his “Bananas” and the more than slightly comical dwelling doesn’t bog down as in his “Sleeper”. There are no stout true soapboxes, this movie is fair silly.
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