Take the Money and Run
Take the Money and Run is a 1969 American mockumentary comedy film directed by Woody Allen and starring Allen and Janet Margolin with Louise Lasser in a small role. Written by Allen and Mickey Rose, the film chronicles the life of Virgil Starkwell Woody Allen, an inept bank robber. Filmed in San Francisco and San Quentin State Prison, Take the Money and Run received Golden Laurel nominations for Male Comedy Performance Woody Allen and Male New Face Woody Allen, and a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen Woody Allen, Mickey Rose.
Starkwell is arrested for trying to rob a bank after passing to a teller a threatening note that misspells the word gun. Sent to prison, Virgil attempts escape using a bar of soap carved to resemble a gun. Unfortunately for Virgil, it was raining outside and his gun melts. Starkwell does escape prison, but by accident. Joining a mass breakout plan, Virgil is the only inmate not warned that the scheme had been called off. Outside but unemployed, Virgil finds no way to support himself and his family. Eventually he is rearrested and sent to a chain gang where he is undernourished the single meal of the day is a bowl of steam and brutally punished consigned to a steam box with an insurance salesmen.Starkwell again escapes but is eventually captured when attempting to rob a former friend who reveals he is now a cop. ........
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