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Popi
film by Hiller [1969]
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discussed in biography
- In Arthur Hiller: Early work
Popi (1969) was especially noted for the strong performance by Alan Arkin as an immigrant in Spanish Harlem who stages an elaborate scam to gain a better life for his two sons.
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role of Arkin
- In Alan Arkin
…Puerto Rican single father in Popi (1969), and he played Captain Yossarian in Nichols’s Catch-22 (1970), based on the 1961 novel by Joseph Heller. Arkin directed and acted in the film Little Murders (1971), having earlier (1969) directed an Off-Broadway revival of that play, written by Jules Feiffer. He later…
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