Little Big Man

Pros: Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Richard Mulligan, interesting blend of humor and drama/action/violence.
Cons: perhaps too quirky for some wanting a more "powerful" movie.

The Western genre was slowly fading away by the early 1970’s; at the very least, it wasn’t as huge as it was in the heyday of John Wayne (although he still made some films in the 70’s.) It is no surprise that the few Westerns made around this time were ...

Pros: A classic that everybody should see.
Cons: None

Little Big Man is a 1970 classic comedy/drama. It is like Blazing Saddles crossed with How the West was Won. Dustin Hoffman plays Jack Crab a 121-year-old man living in a nursing home, who once was a great Indian fighter or was he?...

Pros: lots of action, funny
Cons: violence, adult content

How can a movie go wrong, when it pairs up Dustin Hoffman with Faye Dunaway? Well, when you give Dunaway only twenty minutes out of more than two hours, a lot can go wrong. But that’s okay, because the things that go wrong for Dustin Hoffman are right ...

Pros: direction, cinematography, cast, sets, script
Cons: exaggerated characters, episodic

Director Arthur Penn is best known for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), but he made a much better film just a few years later. As with the case with another classic film from 1970, MASH, Penn reached into the American past and re-interpreted it in...

Pros: "My Heart Soars Like a Hawk"
Cons: None.

The movie "Little Big Man", is one of my all time favorite movies. It is documentary, fiction, comedy, tragedy, irony, and metaphor all put together. This movie will make you laugh and make you cry. Arthur Penn based his movie "Little Big Man", on the...

Pros: The story, acting, setting and the idea. Very thought-provoking and original in its concept
Cons: Sometimes goes overboard and a bit historically inaccurate

Most people will list "The Searchers" as the best western ever made. That movie with John Wayne in a heartwrenching role as a man looking for his Indian abducted niece was a good movie but it's nothing compared to this. "Little Big...

Pros: It's so beautiful
Cons: It's so bitter

I was 15 years old when I first listened to Dustin Hoffman’s worn out voice at the superb opening of this epic. His character was whispering with the leftovers of his forces: “… my name is Jack Crabb… I am the sole white survivor of the battle of Little...

Pros: Gives accurate impressions of Native Americans.
Cons: Very far fetched

I watched this movie in a high school English class, and for me to stay awake while watching a movie in school is unheard of. I really found it interesting how they portrayed the Native Americans a "human beings" rather that non-religious...

Pros: Great Acting, Great Story
Cons: Unrealistic blood

I went to a little theatre in West Hollywood to see Dreamers the other day, but was discouraged to find that it was not playing anymore. Luckily, the box office employee was kind of enough to suggest Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman. I had vaguely...

Pros: Funny
Cons: Long

Yes, it is true. A young Dustin Hoffman goes in front of the camera as a hero in this "western satire" as Jack Crab. Jack is brought up by the Cheyenne Indians (also known as the Human Beings) - but he is a white man and that saves him from...

Pros: Great story
Cons: None

A great film that touches on many of the well known pieces of our nations history during the Wild West. Dustin Hoffman does a superb job growing in the film from a boy to a man demonstrating his disillusionment with white society as the Indians were...