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Little Murders
- Director: Alan Arkin
- Writer: Jules Feiffer
- Producer: Jack Brodsky; Burtt Harris
CGiii Comment
This is a supreme example of when film-making went from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Arkin directs with competence - but, with a script that is so ludicrous - only a cockroach without a brain would understand it.
This is a testament to the time - hippy-dippy, anti-war mentality, rusty realism, irksome eccentrics - vital ingredients for a tasteless pie.
It's awful.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
An idealistic girl, Patsy Newquist, saves a young apathetic photographer, Alfred Chamberlain, from a gang of hooligans. She falls for him, but he turns out to be a nihilist. They go out anyway. All this happens against the background of random shootings in NYC (at the time the play the movie is based on was written, the city was going broke). Her family accept him, but when she tries to change him and get him to find meaning in life, things go horribly wrong in a cruel twist of fate.
Cast & Characters
Elliott Gould as Alfred Chamberlain;
Marcia Rodd as Patsy Newquist;
Vincent Gardenia as Mr. Newquist;
Elizabeth Wilson as Mrs. Newquist;
Jon Korkes as Kenny Newquist;
John Randolph as Mr. Chamberlain;
Doris Roberts as Mrs. Chamberlain;
Lou Jacobi as Judge Stern;
Donald Sutherland as Rev. Dupas;
Alan Arkin as Lt. Practice;
Martin Kove