Jack Crabb/Little Big Man
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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.
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.
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In the present day 1970, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman), the oldest living man in the world, who resides in a hospice, is recounting his long and colorful life story to a curious historian (William Hickey).
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.
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Play Trailer. Either the most neglected hero in history or a liar of insane proportion! Overview. Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer. Arthur Penn. Thomas Berger. Calder Willingham. Written by John Chard on September 2, 2018.
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.
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.
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Little Big Man is a 1970 American Western directed by Arthur Penn and based on the novel Little Big Man by Thomas Berger. It is a picaresque comedy about a white male child raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century.
