Take the Money and Run

Directed by	Woody Allen
Written by	Woody Allen Mickey Rose
Starring	Woody Allen Janet Margolin Louise Lasser Marcel Hillaire Jackson Beck
Produced by	Charles Joffe
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September, 1969
Runtime	85 min
Language	English
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Take the Money and Run is a 1969 comedy film co-written by, directed by and starring Woody Allen. It is a mockumentary, chronicling the life of Virgil Starkwell, a bungling petty thief. His entry into a life of crime at a young age, his crime spree, his first prison term and eventual escape, the birth and growth of his family, as well as his eventual capture at the hands of the FBI are some of the notable events depicted. Image File history File links Take the Money and Run This image is of a videotape cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the videotape or the studio which produced the videotape in question. ... Woody Allen. ... Woody Allen. ... Woody Allen. ... -1... Jackson Beck (July 23, 1912 in Manhattan, New York - July 28, 2004 in Manhattan) was best known as the voice of Bluto in over 300 Popeye cartoons. ... The current United Artists logo. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... See also: 1968 in film 1969 1970 in film 1960s in film years in film film Events Cannes Film Festival opens, but closes in support of a French general strike without awarding any prizes. ... A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. ... Woody Allen. ... Mockumentary (portmanteau of mock documentary. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

This film, which ranks among some of the funniest of all-time, was the first to be directed by Allen. The hysterical and almost slapstick style is similar to that of Allen's next several films, including Sleeper and Bananas. Sleeper has a number of different meanings, usually connected to sleep in varying degrees of literalness: Sleeper is a Woody Allen movie. ... Banana can be The Banana fruit The town Banana, Queensland The town Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo The Rev. ...

Allen discussed the concept of filming a mockumentary in an interview with Richard Schickel. "Take the Money and Run was a pseudo-documentary. The idea of doing a documentary, which I later finally perfected when I did Zelig was with me from the first day I started movies. I thought that was an ideal vehicle for doing comedy, because the documentary format was very serious, so you were immediately operating in an area where any little thing you did upset the seriousness and was thereby funny. And you could tell your story laugh by laugh by laugh... The object of the movie was for every inch of it to be a laugh." Zelig is a 1983 movie produced and directed by Woody Allen. ...

External link

• Take the Money and Run at the Internet Movie Database