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Cast

Woody Allen
as Virgil Starkwell

Janet Margolin
as Louise

Marcel Hillaire
as Fritz

Jacquelyn Hyde
as Miss Blaire

Lonny Chapman
as Jake

Jan Merlin
as Al

James Anderson
as Chain Gang Warden

Howard Storm
as Fred

Mark Gordon
as Vince

Micil Murphy
as Frank

Dan Frazer
as Psychiatrist

Minnow Moskowitz
as Joe Agneta

Nate Jacobson
as Judge

Grace Bauer
as Farmhouse Lady

Ethel Sokolow
as Mother Starkwell

Henry Leff
as Father Starkwell

Don Frazier
as Psychiatrist

Mike O'Dowd
as Michael Sullivan

Louise Lasser
as Kay Lewis

Jackson Beck
as The Narrator

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• Dec 10, 2010

  Witty, funny, and filled with laughs and one-liners but lacking a solid narrative to hang all the gags on. Interesting early Woody, perhaps for his fans only.
  

  Jonny B Super Reviewer
• Jan 04, 2010

  It doesn't matter how I look at it, the humor of this early Wood Allen semi-mockumentary doesn't work for me at all with those gags that may look great on paper but are a failure on screen, and it is just irritating to see one funny joke for every three or four terrible ones.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Dec 18, 2009

  Take the Money and Run is a surrealist crime comedy that's little more than a loosely bound series of gags, and yet somehow the whole thing works. Woody Allen plays Virgil Starkwell, perhaps the world's worst criminal. He gets caught trying to rob a bank because the tellers can't read his hold-up note. He tries to pull another bank job with a gang, and a separate gang holds up the same bank at the very same time. Life is a series of hard knocks for Virgil, until one day when he's about to rob a beautiful girl, and decides to talk to her instead. The two soon become a couple and marry, and it's here the movie makes it's strongest point. The dialogue is at it's strongest and most realistic in the couple's exchanges, especially in the way she refuses to allow him to get away with lying. She knows him all too well, you see. The rest of the world are idiots, though. Unable to recognize even the lamest of schemes, everyone from cops and judges on down to the everyday people are all at the mercy of slightly-above-average-intelligence Virgil, and yet he always manages to do himself in due to his extreme ineptitude. In a movie that's just a series of gags, with the barest and loosest of plots, its fortunate that most of time it works.
  Devon B Super Reviewer
• Nov 20, 2008

  I remember I was reading some Woody Allen Q&A session with Eric Lax and he was talking about how inexperienced he was while making this movie and how difficult it was to direct, so I was surprised to find that this was actually a very tightly structured narrative. All the physical comedy scenes are priceless but it's never like tiresome joke, joke, joke one after the other. The story works passably as well. It's actually one of the better comedies, believe it or not - miles ahead of Bananas and Love and Death. And the women Woody goes for are all so pretty and awesome too - sweet and willing to take a joke, but not in a wallflower sense at all.
  Jennifer X Super Reviewer

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