Take the Money and Run 1969

Vincent Canby, New York Times: Allen has made a movie that is, in effect, a feature-length, two-reel comedy -- something very special and eccentric and funny. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Whatever its genesis, Allen's scraggly rhetoric evolved into the dominant comic style of the 70s. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run has some very funny moments, and you'll laugh a lot, but in the last analysis it isn't a very funny movie. Read more

Time Out: It has plenty of hilarious jokes and concepts, like the ventriloquists' dummies at prison visiting time, and the return home from a chaingang break with five shackled cons in tow. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A few good laughs in an 85-minute film do not a comedy make. Read more