LITTLE BIG MAN [1970]

Director Arthur Penn's adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel Little Big Man is one of the first Western films to properly portray Native Americans and have a poor view on the U.S. Military.  

As serious and distressing as the subject matter is the film manages to fit in some great humor at all the right moments making for one of the better and more entertaining "epic" films ever produced.   Dustin Hoffman is magnificent as the pint-sized protagonist who just can't seem to catch a break and when he does it's short-lived.  It might be based on historical facts but the story itself is purely fictional so with that in mind, it's easier to not take quite as seriously as many might be fooled into.  

It's an impressive job at taken a touchy subject then blending it with humor that hasn't outdated it self to this very day.  

4 Soda Pop Kids out of 5

Alice's Restaurant (1969)

"They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and they took twenty-seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography."

If that passage means something to you, then you might like the film. If that passage means nothing to you, then you might not like the film.

Easiest damn review I ever knocked out.

2½ turns of the hat out of 5