Take the Money and Run
Woody Allen in Take the Money and Run (1969), which he directed and cowrote.
Take the Money and Run
film by Allen [1969]
Take the Money and Run, American screwball comedy film, released in 1969, that was cowritten and directed by Woody Allen and marked his first leading role onscreen. The film, presented in a “mockumentary” format, recounts the misadventures of would-be master criminal Virgil Starkwell (played by Allen) as he blunders from one petty caper to another. Virgil’s bungled attempts at robbery repeatedly land him in jail. He finds some purpose in his life, however, when, on parole, he falls in love with a woman (Janet Margolin) whose purse he had been planning to steal. In one of the movie’s most popular ...(100 of 236 words)