Little Big Man

UPC: 097363772149

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Situations, Not For Children, Western Violence]

Summary: 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. Violently thrust into the white world, Jack meets a righteous preacher (Thayer David) and his wife (Faye Dunaway), tries to be a gunfighter under the tutelage of Wild Bill Hickock (Jeff Corey), and gets married. Returned to the Cheyenne by chance, Jack prefers life as a Human Being. The carnage wreaked by the white man in the Washita massacre and the lethal fallout from the egomania of General George A. Custer (Richard Mulligan) at Little Big Horn, however, show Crabb the horrific implications of Old Lodge Skins' sage observation, "There is an endless supply of White Men, but there has always been a limited number of Human Beings." ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Western

Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – New York Film Critics Circle Film Presented – Berlin International Film Festival Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: ccWidescreen version enhanced for 16:9 tvs
English subtitles
Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround
English Stereo Surround
French Mono

Little Big Man

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 04/29/2003

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono, DS Dolby Surround (4.0)

Runtime: 139 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Turn That Thing On
2. Living Indian
3. No Longer a Boy
4. Welcome to Your New Home
5. My Religion Period
6. A Swindler
7. Natural Born Gunfighter
8. A Respectable Storekeeper
9. Cheyenne Country
10. Muleskinner
11. Death and Life
12. The Indian Nations
13. Turning Pure Indian
14. Invisible
15. From Renegade to Drunk
16. Old Friends
17. A Custer Decision
18. Little Big Horn
19. A World With No Center
20. Sometimes the Magic Works...

Lucia Bozzola

Little Big Man was one of a group of early 1970s Westerns that found a precedent for the atrocities of the Vietnam War in the history of white westward expansion at the expense of Native Americans. In the process, Arthur Penn and screenwriter Calder Willingham take apart the Western itself, sending up myths of white "civilization" and its proper violence while lending a humorous and poignant slant to the mythic "noble savages" -- not to mention casting actual Native American actors. Primed for Western iconoclasm by an ever more vigorous antiwar movement and counterculture, audiences turned Little Big Man into a surprise hit; Chief Dan George garnered a New York Film Critics Circle prize and an Oscar nomination for his performance. One of the most successful of the period's revisionist Westerns, Little Big Man stands as a timely and wittily caustic indictment of western myths and the contemporary legacy of manifest destiny. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Bert Conway  Actor 
Don Brodie  Actor 
Aimee Eccles  Actor 
Herbert Nelson  Actor 
Helen Verbit  Actor 
Lou Cutell  Actor 
Ken Mayer  Actor 
Robert Little Star  Actor 
Jack Bannon  Actor 
Jack Mullaney  Actor 
James Anderson  Actor 
Phil Kenneally  Actor 
Steve Shemayne  Actor 
Bud Cokes  Actor 
Thayer David  Actor 
Ruben Moreno  Actor 
M. Emmet Walsh  Actor 
Jesse Vint  Actor 
Emily Cho  Actor 
William Hickey  Actor 
Alan Oppenheimer  Actor 
Leonard George  Actor 
Stuart Millar  Producer 
Arthur Penn  Director 
Arthur Penn  Producer 
Gene Lasko  Producer 
Calder Willingham  Screenwriter 
John Paul Hammond  Composer (Music Score) 
Dustin Hoffman  Actor 
Faye Dunaway  Actor 
Martin Balsam  Actor 
Richard Mulligan  Actor 
Chief Dan George  Actor 
Jeff Corey  Actor 
Kelly Jean Peters  Actor 
Carol Androsky  Actor 
Cal Bellini  Actor 
Ray Dimas  Actor 
Alan Howard  Actor 

Country: USA