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Take the Money and Run Overview:

Take the Money and Run (1969) was a Comedy - Crime Film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Jack Rollins, Edgar J. Scherick, Jack Grossberg, Charles H. Joffe and Sidney Glazier.

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Take the Money and Run (1969)

By Beatrice on May 2, 2020 From Flickers in Time

Take the Money and Run Directed by Woody Allen Written by Woody Allen and Mickey Rose 1969/US IMDb link First viewing/Netflix rental Way before he was sophisticated, Woody Allen was ridiculous … and hilarious.  This, his directorial debut, is classic early Allen. The film takes the form of ... Read full article

Take the Money and Run (1969)

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Take the Money and Run (1969)

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Take the Money and Run (1969, Woody Allen)

on Mar 16, 2009 From The Stop Button

Take the Money and Run kind of dangles on a line. It’s occasionally a screwball comedy–something the Marx Brothers would have done–and alternately a thought-out spoof of documentaries. The breeze moves the film’s direction and it’s hard to know where it’ll go next... Read full article

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Take the Money and Run Quotes:

Bank Teller #1: Does this look like "gub" or "gun"?
Bank Teller #2: Gun. See? But what does "abt" mean?
Virgil: It's "act". A-C-T. Act natural. Please put fifty thousand dollars into this bag and act natural.
Bank Teller #1: Oh, I see. This is a holdup?
Virgil: After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her, and after half an hour I completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.
Virgil: Do you know if it's raining outside?
Virgil: Nobody wears beige to a bank robbery!
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Take the Money and Run Facts
During the scene where Virgil is casing the bank using a hidden camera, the camera is hidden inside a challah, a braided egg bread eaten by Jews during the Sabbath.
Filmed for 10 weeks in the San Francisco area. Allen joked that it was a better place to spend the summer than Cleveland but, in reality, he knew that the city was compact enough to allow him and his crew to complete 87 moves in 50 days. His film crew knew that such a daunting schedule was more suited to the TV industry, where working till 10 or 11 at night was commonplace. But Allen completed the film without once working late, and several times he wrapped for the day at 4 o'clock.
The psychiatrist's name is Dr. Julius Epstein. This is most likely an homage to screenwriter Julius J. Epstein, who is best known for winning an Oscar for his screenplay to Casablanca.
Virgil's inept attempt to escape prison by carving a gun out of soap and turning it black with shoe polish is loosely based on real life bank robber John Dillinger's famous escape from the Crown Point, Indiana jail using a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish. In an interesting parallel, in the film Dillinger directed by John Milius and starring Warren Oates as John Dillinger, he is shown using a bar of soap instead of a piece of wood.
This was the first movie that Woody Allen directed. His initial lack of either confidence or track record prompted him to initially ask Jerry Lewis to direct the movie, but Lewis was busy with his own work.
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