Little Cigars

• Director: Chris Christenberry
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Crime Drama
• Themes: Woman In Jeopardy, Circuses & Carnivals, Criminal's Revenge
• Main Cast: Jerry Maren, Felix Silla, Angel Tompkins
• Release Year: 1973
• Country: US
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

The "little cigars" are five midget criminals, masterminded by Billy Curtis. They team up with full-sized Angel Tompkins, a gangster's girlfriend who's on the lam from her homicidal "protector." Tompkins and the five little people form a travelling carnival as a front for their crooked activities. Two of the midgets kill off the mobsters who've been sent to rub out Tompkins; in gratitude, she begins an affair with Curtis. At first planning to desert the other midgets and abscond with their hard-earned stealings, Tompkins and Curtis have a change of heart, return the money to their chums, and ride off together for a most unusual romantic rendezvous. Though Little Cigars has been unfairly maligned by such "authoritive" books as The Golden Turkey Awards, the film is actually quite entertaining, and not nearly as exploitive of Little People as might be expected. Among the other well-known Hollywood midgets and dwarves in the cast are Angelo Rossitto, Felix Silla, and Jerry Maren. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Jon Cedar - Faust; Billy Curtis - Slick; Joe de Santis - Travers; Frank Delfino - Monty; Phil Kenneally - Ganz; Felix Silla - Frankie; Todd Susman - Buzz; Angel Tompkins - Cleo; Jerry Maren - Cadillac; Emory Souza - Hugo

Credit

Alfeo Bocchicchio - Art Director, Chris Christenberry - Director, Eve Newman - Editor, Harry Betts - Composer (Music Score), John M. Stephens - Cinematographer, Samuel Z. Arkoff - Producer, Albert Band - Producer, Jesse Wayne - Stunts, Louis Garfinkle - Screenwriter, Frank Ray Perilli - Screenwriter

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