Jack Crabb/Little Big Man
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Little Big Man is a 1970 American revisionist Western film directed by Arthur Penn, adapted by Calder Willingham from Thomas Berger's 1964 novel of the same title. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan.
Dec 23, 1970 · Little Big Man: Directed by Arthur Penn. With Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam. Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.
- (38K)
- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Arthur Penn
- 1970-12-23
Arthur Penn's "Little Big Man" is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn. It mostly works. When it doesn't -- when there's a failure of tone or an overdrawn caricature -- it regroups cheerfully and plunges ahead.
When a curious oral historian (William Hickey) turns up to hear the life story of 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman), he can scarcely believe his ears.
- (80)
- Arthur Penn
- PG-13
- Dustin Hoffman
A comedy-western film based on a novel by Thomas Berger, starring Dustin Hoffman as a man who claims to have been raised by Indians. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and other crew members who worked on this movie.
Arthur Penn's vaguely loopy revisionist Western, Little Big Man (1970), is mainly remembered today for the carefully crafted, seriocomic performance delivered by its star, Dustin Hoffman. But Hoffman's character, Jack Crabb, has a great deal in common with a far more popular big-screen creation named Forrest Gump.
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Flashing back to 1859, the 10-year-old Jack and his older sister Caroline (Carole Androsky) survive the massacre of their pioneer parents' wagon train by the hostile Pawnee warriors. Found by a Cheyenne warrior, Jack and his sister are taken back to a Cheyenne village.
