PG-13 | 2h 27min | Drama, Satire, Western, Adventure | 23 December 1970 (USA)
A “revisionist Western” yarn, “Little Big Man” is told in flashback by the 121-year-old Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman) who, as the movie starts, is being interviewed by a historian (William Hickey) searching for true tales of the Old West.
Initially impatient with Crabb, the historian soon becomes transfixed with his recounting, which goes back over a century to when Crabb and his big sister Caroline (Carol Androsky) are taken in by the same tribe (Cheyenne) that murdered their parents.
Their leader, Old Lodge Skins (the Oscar-nominated Chief Dan George), is a benevolent type; he’s chock full of wry humor with intractable opinions regarding honor and tradition. Falsely believing she will be “ravaged” by the tribe, Caroline bolts, leaving Crabb to assimilate alone with a new, thoroughly foreign lifestyle.
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