| Little Big Man | | Cast : | Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway | | Director : | Arthur Penn | | Studio : | Paramount Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 23, 1970 | | DVD Released Date : | April 29, 2003 | | Language : | English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 25, 2005 | | Summary | I agree | Content
 | This movie already has a spate of good reviews, so I will only say that it is also one of my all-time favorites--a movie I watch once or twice a year on average. A classic with very few flaws. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 18, 2005 | | Summary | my favorite western movie | Content
| as a person who hates most " westerns" this and SHANE are my 2 all time best western movies. SHANE for its gritty fight scenes and magnificent acting LITTLE BIG MAN for its realism of what happend out west with out moralizing. a movie that is tragic at one moment and comic the next, this film captures the demise of the red race as white settlers move west with the culmination of custers last stand at the battle of little big horn in montana.hoffman is just great as jack crabb the 121 year old surviver of that battle as he relates his life story to a reporter told in flash back style in 1971. drifting from the whites to the indians back and forth in a series of mis adventures jack crab goes through history that makes anyone watching envious to be him. jack does just about everything possible and fate has him personally tricking general custer in to going in to the battle of little big horn with a revenge motive that is just and satisfying. ( so diverse was the united states at this time that just a day before the battle people only 1000 miles away filed into ball parks to see baseball games and munch hot dogs and drink beer) a movie that i could look at again and again ( and often do). martin balsam and faye dunaway are also great through out. arthur penns best directorial effort |
| Rating | | | Date | May 02, 2005 | | Summary | Greatest Western Ever!!! | Content
| I saw this movie in school and it had a combination of all genres. Little Big Man was a comedy and action-adventure. The best part of the movie is when one of the Indians (Native Americans) says "I have 4 horses and a wife." Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman) responds by saying "I have 4 wives and a horse."
Excellent film. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 21, 2005 | | Summary | A milestone film of the seventies! | Content
| If you take a look around in this prolific decade you will realize the name of Artur Penn was a real turning point in the American Filmography. Penn walked to the sun with this legendary picture. He literally was a risky director. Indeed it's difficult if not impossible determine the winner step of his artistic approach. From the miracle worker, The chase and Bonnie and Clyde to this giant film that somehow means the hithherto of an existential Western.
It has been said the Western symbolizes the particular mythology of North America. And Penn employed all his efforts,supported by a witty script, to reveal the growing up process of a simple man from the innocence to the experience: the painful but necessary step to reach the beloved pearl.
Hoffman was simply superb in this film. I still remember in the interview made by James Lipton (Inside the Actor's studio) that Penn said to Hoffman how to face the decisive sequence in which he is sent to a secure death: he proposed to assume in a deep and challenging proccess of ancient memories how he would feel in case to find in the Concentration Camp just before to be exterminated. So Hoffman kept this valuable advise in mind and produced that overwhelming facial expression hard to forget in all the Cinema Story.
This work is included among my 200 top cult movies in any age. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 19, 2005 | | Summary | One of the 3 great westerns...ever | Content
| Here are the 3 greatest westerns ever made (in my humble opinion)-
"The Searchers", "The Wild Bunch" and-- bringing up a strong third,
"Little Big Man."
This is probably Arthur Penn's and Dustin Hoffman's finest hour and a 1/2.
Penn totally captured the absurdities of Thomas Berger's novel of the Wild West gone insane -- and Dustin Hoffman should have won every award available to him. Why say more>
Do not miss one of the 3 best westerns ever made.
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