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    Little Big Man (1970)

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    Dustin Hoffman plays Jack Crabb, a 121-year-old survivor of Custer’s Last Stand, who narrates his long and eventful life to a doubting historian (William Hickey).

    The plot follows Crabb from the time when, as a 10-year-old white orphan (his parents were killed in a Pawnee raid), he is found and adopted by a Cheyenne elder named Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George) and is later made a brave.

    We see the Cheyenne through his eyes, presented as a rich and meaningful way of life. Crabb’s adopted father, tribal elder Old Lodge Skins, is a wise, all-knowing sage who is also something of a magician.

    Chief Dan George was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

    Hoffman is brilliantly convincing as the centenarian, as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when the movie goes into flashback. In order to play the old man, he had to suffer under a 14-piece latex mask, which took five hours a day to apply under the hot makeup lamps.

    Director Arthur Penn’s film has been seen as an obvious analogy between the treatment of the Indians and the Vietnam War.

    Jack Crabb
    Dustin Hoffman
    Old Lodge Skins
    Chief Dan George
    Mrs Pendrake
    Faye Dunaway
    Mr Merriweather
    Martin Balsam
    General Custer
    Richard Mulligan
    Wild Bill Hickok
    Jeff Corey
    Sunshine 
    Aimee Eccles
    Olga
    Kelly Jean Peters
    Caroline
    Carole Androsky
    Little Horse
    Robert Little Star
    Younger Bear
    Cal Bellini
    Younger Bear As Youth
    Steve Miranda
    Shadow That Comes in Sight
    Ruben Moreno
    Burns Red in the Sun
    Steve Shemayne
    Historian
    William Hickey
    Sergeant
    James Anderson
    Lieutenant
    Jesse Vint
    Major
    Alan Oppenheimer
    Rev. Pendrake
    Thayer David
    Mr Kane
    Philip Kenneally
    Captain
    Jack Bannon
    Young Jack Crabb
    Ray Dimas
    Adolescent Jack Crabb
    Alan Howard
    Deacon
    Lou Cutell
    Shot Gun Guard
    M. Emmet Walsh
    Digging Bear
    Emily Cho
    Little Elk
    Cecelia Kootenay
    Buffalo Wallow Woman
    Dessie Bad Bear
    Crow Scout
    Chief Leonard George
    Bartender
    Bert Conway

    Director
    Arthur Penn

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