![]() ![]() ![]() There's no stridency, no preaching, no deep-voiced narrators making sure we got the point of the last massacre. It is the very folksiness of Penn's film that makes it, finally, such a perceptive and important statement about Indians, the West, and the American dream. We're disposed to go along all good storytellers tell stretchers once in a while, and circle back to be sure we got the good parts. ![]() When it doesn't - when there's a failure of tone or an overdrawn caricature - it regroups cheerfully and plunges ahead. Arthur Penn's "Little Big Man" is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn.
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