Little Big Man

1970

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Western

29
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 87% · 79 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 40017 40K

based on novel or book fight indian territory settler native american orphan

Plot summary

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

Director

Arthur Penn Photo
Arthur Penn

Top cast

Richard Mulligan Photo
Richard Mulligan as Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Cal Bellini Photo
Cal Bellini as Younger Bear
Ruben Moreno Photo
Ruben Moreno as Shadow That Comes in Sight
Philip Kenneally Photo
Philip Kenneally as Mr. Kane - Drugstore Proprietor
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1.14 GB
1280*538
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 19 min
Seeds 8
2.21 GB
1904*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 19 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by thinker1691 8 / 10

" I Didn't Mean to Kill him, . . . just, distract him a little " "

For many years in Hollywood, Native Americans were not allowed to portray themselves in films. One director commented, they neither know how to play Indians, nor can they act. Once this absurd idea was quashed and Native Indians were allowed to portray their own people, not only was the myth crushed, but some of them received the highest tributes the film industry could honor them with. Such was the case with this unusual story which was touted as the most forgotten hero of the southwest. Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) plays a white boy who landed smack dab in the emerging historical west at the start of the colonization period. Through his own fanciful narrative, we journey along as he survives an Indian massacre, adopted into the native culture, then re-acculturated into the White world near emerging townships, and then through several high frontier adventures which culminates with, The Battle of The Little Big Horn. Chief Dan George is Old Lodge Skins a native American who made himself memorable to American Audiences plays tutor and mentor to Jack Krabb. Faye Dunaway plays Mrs. Louise Pendrake who is both step-mother and temptress to the maturing Krabb. Martin Balsam plays Mr. Merriweather who literally goes to pieces throughout the film. Jeff Corey befriends Crabb as Wild Bill Hickok. Finally there is Richard Mulligan who plays Gen. George Armstrong Custer, both as a serious military man and then as a lunatic officer. The entire film is destined for classic status, depending on history's eventual reflection of modern Native Americans. ****
Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 8 / 10

Hoffman brilliant in unique western mix

121 year old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) recounts his life in the old west. He claims to be the sole white survivor of Little Bighorn. He and his older sister Caroline are the sole survivors of Pawnee. They are taken in by the Cheyenne. Caroline escapes but Jack is adopted. He is captured by US troopers, apprentice with a snake-oil salesman, becomes a gunslinger after reuniting with Caroline, meets Wild Bill Hickok, marries and bankrupted store, follows Custer, reunite with the Cheyenne and then tricks Custer into Little Bighorn.This is part tall-tales, part satire, part historical reimagining and more accurate than most old western. It is smart and funny. It takes sharp jabs at the old image of Indians. Dustin Hoffman is brilliant in this new world western epic. It does take random turns which is part of its charm.
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