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TITLE Little Big Man (1970)

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DISABILITY Blind Amputee

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 150

GENRE Western

DIRECTOR Arthur Penn

CAST Dustin Hoffman

Faye Dunaway

Martin Balsam

Richard Mulligan

Chief Dan George

Jeff Corey

NOTES Wonderful film on a grand scale which is a piece of alternative history of the west.

Recounted by a wizened 121 year old Dustin Hoffman it's a

sort of liberal re-interpretation of familiar western myths. Little

Big Man was present at all the right places. Fortunately it is

told with much humour.

Chief Dan George was introduced to a wider audience in this

film (Clint Eastwood pinched his character for The Outlaw

Josey Wales). Here he is blind and, with the bonus of being

an Indian, very wise. There is also a character who has lost a

hand and an ear and later loses a leg and an eye. This is the

result of his con man activities.

 


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