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Take the Money and Run

crime lives!

1969 · 1h 25m · M/PG Comedy, Crime
Directed by Woody Allen

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Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

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91%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Whatever its genesis, Allen's scraggly rhetoric evolved into the dominant comic style of the 70s.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

A few good laughs in an 85-minute film do not a comedy make.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy -- something very special and eccentric and funny.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run has some very funny moments, and you'll laugh a lot, but in the last analysis it isn't a very funny movie.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

It has plenty of hilarious jokes and concepts, like the ventriloquists' dummies at prison visiting time, and the return home from a chaingang break with five shackled cons in tow.

Time Out

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