Little Big Man (Blu-ray)

Recounting how the West was won through the eyes of a white man raised as a Native American, Arthur Penn's 1970 adaptation of Thomas Berger's satirical novel was a comic yet stinging allegory about the bloody results of American imperialism. As a misguided 20th-century historian listens, 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) narrates the story of being the only white survivor of Custer's Last Stand. White orphan Crabb was adopted by the Cheyenne, renamed Little Big Man, and raised in the ways of the Human Beings by paternal mentor Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George), accepting non-conformity and living peacefully with nature. Violently thrust into the white world, Jack meets a righteous preacher (Thayer David) and his wife (Faye Dunaway), tries to be a gunfighter under the tutelage of Wild Bill Hickock (Jeff Corey), and gets married. Returned to the Cheyenne by chance, Jack prefers life as a Human Being. The carnage wreaked by the white man in the Washita massacre and the lethal fallout from the egomania of General George A. Custer (Richard Mulligan) at Little Big Horn, however, show Crabb the horrific implications of Old Lodge Skins' sage observation, "There is an endless supply of White Men, but there has always been a limited number of Human Beings".

Starring: Carole Androsky, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Richard Mulligan, Chief Dan George, Amy Eccles, Aimee Eccles, Don Brodie, Emily Cho, George Leonard, Herbert Nelson, Phil Kenneally, Ray Dimas, Steve Shemayne, Jeff Corey, Kelly Jean Peters, Carol Androsky, Robert Little Star, Cal Bellini, Ruben Moreno, William Hickey, James Anderson, Jesse Vint, Alan Oppenheimer, Thayer David, Les Kimber, Philip Kenneally, Jack Bannon, Alan Howard, Jack Mullaney, Lou Cutell, M. Emmet Walsh, Helen Verbit, Arthur Penn, Bert Conway, Ken Mayer, Bud Cokes

Director: Arthur Penn, Gene Lasko, Peter von Puttkamer, Sheera von Puttkamer, Stuart Millar, Wade Davis

Rating: PG13