Little Big Man (1970)

This movie has been on my list of films to see since the 1990's. Sort of a subversive 'anti-western', based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Berger the film tells the story of a young man (played as an adult by Dustin Hoffman, who at this time in his career was hitting everything out of the park) raised by Indians and his Forrest Gump like adventures on the great planes of mid 19th Century America. The film is full of great character parts for performers from Martin Balsam, to Faye Dunaway to Chief Dan George, who is the best part of the movie, all do respect to the rest of the talented cast. The production has a number of tonal shifts, and handles those well which not everybody can do so kudos to Arthur Penn. A smart satire with its share of poignancy, not a lament for the passing of an old west, but a lamination on an old west that has rightly passed. ***1/2