United States

Woody Allen stars as Virgil Starkwell in this zany tale of a be-spectacled innocent embroiled in a life of bizarre crimes such as looting gum-ball machines. Virgil ends up in the penitentiary of course, but tries to break out to pursue the course of True Love. Woody's hilarious anxieties and a stream of very funny visual jokes make Take The Money And Run one of the American comic's best early films.