Little Big Man

Pros: Chief Dan George, Dustin Hoffman, Supporting Cast, Comedy

Cons: Over the top at times

The Bottom Line: A revisionist western that will tickle your funny bone. Dustin Hoffman's best work and Chief Dan George is also great.

Review: Little Big Man (1970) Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) directed this western that helped revise the type and set the tone which was emulated by a few movies that followed it, including the much later Forrest Gump. Like Gump, ...

Pros: A classic that everybody should see.

Cons: None

Review: Little Big Man is a 1970 classic comedy/drama. It is like Blazing Saddles crossed with How the West was Won. Dustin Hoffman plays Jack Crab a 121-year-old man living in a nursing home, who once was a great Indian fighter or was he?...

Pros: direction, cinematography, cast, sets, script

Cons: exaggerated characters, episodic

The Bottom Line: This film is a wonderful revisionist western comedy that will be especially appreciated by fans of Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway.

Review: Director Arthur Penn is best known for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), but he made a much better film just a few years later. As with the case with another classic film from 1970, MASH, Penn reached into the American past and re-interpreted it in...

Pros: "My Heart Soars Like a Hawk"

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: This movie will interest you, and make you laugh, smile, and cry.

Review: The movie "Little Big Man", is one of my all time favorite movies. It is documentary, fiction, comedy, tragedy, irony, and metaphor all put together. This movie will make you laugh and make you cry. Arthur Penn based his movie "Little Big Man", on the...

Pros: The story, acting, setting and the idea. Very thought-provoking and original in its concept

Cons: Sometimes goes overboard and a bit historically inaccurate

Review: Most people will list "The Searchers" as the best western ever made. That movie with John Wayne in a heartwrenching role as a man looking for his Indian abducted niece was a good movie but it's nothing compared to this. "Little Big...

Pros: It's so beautiful

Cons: It's so bitter

The Bottom Line: It's a perennial masterpiece to be watched as many times as needed to grasp a bitter but beautiful worldview.

Review: I was 15 years old when I first listened to Dustin Hoffman’s worn out voice at the superb opening of this epic. His character was whispering with the leftovers of his forces: “… my name is Jack Crabb… I am the sole white survivor of the battle of Little...

Pros: Gives accurate impressions of Native Americans.

Cons: Very far fetched

Review: I watched this movie in a high school English class, and for me to stay awake while watching a movie in school is unheard of. I really found it interesting how they portrayed the Native Americans a "human beings" rather that non-religious...

Pros: Great story

Cons: None

Review: A great film that touches on many of the well known pieces of our nations history during the Wild West. Dustin Hoffman does a superb job growing in the film from a boy to a man demonstrating his disillusionment with white society as the Indians were...

Pros: Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, interesting blend of humor and drama/action/violence.

Cons: perhaps too quirky for some wanting a more "powerful" movie.

The Bottom Line: A very good and unique 1970's era Western.

Review: The Western genre was slowly fading away by the early 1970’s; at the very least, it wasn’t as huge as it was in the heyday of John Wayne (although he still made some films in the 70’s.) It is no surprise that the few Westerns made around this time were ...

Pros: lots of action, funny

Cons: violence, adult content

The Bottom Line: the funniest and most tragic epic drama comedy action western cowboys and Indians gunfighter violent war movie I have ever seen

Review: How can a movie go wrong, when it pairs up Dustin Hoffman with Faye Dunaway? Well, when you give Dunaway only twenty minutes out of more than two hours, a lot can go wrong. But that’s okay, because the things that go wrong for Dustin Hoffman are right ...