Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Woody Allen (who shared the authorship of this zany crime flick) makes his star (an inept criminal played by Woody Allen) stumble through such an incredibly long list of bungles and pitfalls that the film loses much of its comic momentum. However, the director (Woody Allen) sustains it all by providing some insanely funny moments...
...with nostalgias and assumptions of what American life ought to be. Armored in the certitudes of middle-class values, he speaks with the authentic voice of Americans who are angry and frightened by what has happened to their culture, who view the '60s as a disastrous montage of pornography, crime, assaults on patriotism, flaming ghettos, marijuana and occupied colleges. If he speaks with Richard Nixon's tacit approval?and he does?Agnew does his duty gladly, bringing missionary zeal and a sense of genuine moral outrage to his oratory...
Lindsay's counterattack was protean. Forced to run independently of both major parties and thus lacking the usual precinct apparatus, he attracted thousands of volunteers who canvassed the neighborhoods. Accused of arrogance, he went on television to admit mistakes. Charged with being soft on crime, he boasted of his efforts to beef up the police department. To overcome the argument that his policies had encouraged anti-Semitism among black radicals, he went, yarmulke on head, to synagogues to plead his case...
...tried to steer his conversation toward Lindsay's positions on welfare and federal taxation, but he was intent on discussing crime in the city, and the garbage in the streets...
...process, Catto loses his physical virginity to a whore, his philosophical virginity to his surgeon. He becomes an outraged man who takes it upon himself to lead the firing squad in order to save another officer from having to live with the crime...