Jack Crabb/Little Big Man
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Little Big Man is a 1970 American revisionist Western film [2] 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. The film follows the life of a white man who was raised by members of ...
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
January 1, 1970. 4 min read. 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. We’re disposed to go along; all good storytellers tell ...
Little Big Man. 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. Crabb tells of having ...
- (80)
- Arthur Penn
- PG-13
- Dustin Hoffman
Little Big Man is a life-spanning adventure film following and narrated by Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman), a white man who was once adopted by Native Americans, then rejoined the white folk, then was re-ingratiated into the Native Americans, then went back to the white Americans, then back again and on and on during the Civil War era. The story is split into several distinctive periods of Jack ...
- (14.4K)
- Arthur Penn
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 ...
Little Big Man is about 121-year old Jack Crabb, a white man who goes back and forth living between white culture and the Cheyenne Indians throughout the course of his life. Dustin Hoffman does a peerless and expressive job playing the young puerile Indian, then young white man, then rugged adventurer whose self-appointed mission is to defeat General Custer (Richard Mulligan).
