Overview
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Little Big Man (1970)
Little Big Man (1970) PG-13 | 139 min | Comedy, Western | 23 December 1970 (USA) Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer. Director: Arthur Penn Writers: Thomas Berger (novel), Calder Willingham (screenplay) Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George
Little Big Man (film)Little Big Man is a 1970 American Western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the 1964 novel Little Big Man by Thomas Berger.While broadly categorized as a western, or an epic, the film encompasses several literary/film genres, including comedy, drama and adventure.It is about a white male child raised by the Cheyenne nation during the 19th century.
Amazon.com: Watch Little Big Man | Prime VideoIn the present day, 121-year-old Jack Crabb, the oldest living man in the world and residing in a hospice, recounts his plentiful life story to a curious historian. Among other things, Crabb claims to have had been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout for General George Armstrong Custer, and the sole white survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Little Big Man (1970)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.
Amazon.com: Little Big Man [BluWhen I used to teach U.S. history I would show Little Big Man to my students. It is a fantastic film about the American expansion westward and what it meant for both Americans and the Native Americans who were their victims. The movie is part drama, but comedy and part tragedy. The story follows the adventures of Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman).
Little Big Man (1970)Adapted from the novel by Thomas Berger, Little Big Man opens with the spoken reminiscences of 121-year-old Jack Crabbe (Dustin Hoffman, immersed in tons of age makeup). In flashbacks, we see how ...
Little Big Man movie review & film summary (1970) | Roger ...Hoffman, or Little Big Man, gets around pretty well. He touches all the bases of the Western myth. He was brought West as a settler, raised as a Cheyenne, tried his hand at gunfighting and medicine shows, scouted for the cavalry, experimented with the hermit life, was married twice, survived Custer's Last Stand, and sat at the foot of an old man named Old Lodge Skins, who instructed him in the ...
