Little Big Man [videorecording] / Cinema Center Films ; produced by Stuart Millar ; writer, Calder Willingham ; directed by Arthur Penn.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 377214 | Paramount Home EntertainmentPublication details: [United States] : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2003], c1983.Description: 1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0792190211
- 9780792190219
- Cinematography, Harry Stradling, Jr. ; editors, Dede Allen, Richard Marks ; music, John Hammond.
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Main Library | DVD | New | WESTERN LITTLE B | Available | 33111010017289 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story of being the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. White orphan Crabb was adopted by the Cheyenne, renamed "Little Big Man," and raised in the ways of the "Human Beings" by paternal mentor Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George), accepting non-conformity and living peacefully with nature. Violently thrust into the white world, Jack meets a righteous preacher (Thayer David) and his wife (Faye Dunaway), tries to be a gunfighter under the tutelage of Wild Bill Hickock (Jeff Corey), and gets married. Returned to the Cheyenne by chance, Jack prefers life as a Human Being. The carnage wreaked by the white man in the Washita massacre and the lethal fallout from the egomania of General George A. Custer (Richard Mulligan) at Little Big Horn, however, show Crabb the horrific implications of Old Lodge Skins' sage observation, "There is an endless supply of White Men, but there has always been a limited number of Human Beings." ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.
Based on the novel by Thomas Berger.
Cinematography, Harry Stradling, Jr. ; editors, Dede Allen, Richard Marks ; music, John Hammond.
Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway.
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
DVD.