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Little Big Man

Synopsis:

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.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Arthur Penn
  • Studio: Cinema Center 100 Productions, National General Pictures
  • Year: 1970
  • Run Time: 139 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: PG13
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Western
  • Filmed in: Color

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