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The two are tarred and feathered when their customers realize that Meriweather's products are fraudulent. In 1866, Jack becomes the apprentice of the snake-oil salesman Meriweather. When he witnesses Mrs. Pendrake having sex with the soda shop owner, Jack leaves the Pendrake household and renounces his foster parents and religion. Army custody and going through interrogations and debriefing, Jack, being a minor, is put in the foster care of Reverend Silas Pendrake and his sexually frustrated wife, Louise, who tries to seduce Jack. In 1865, when Jack is 16, he is captured by U.S. Cavalry troopers during a skirmish and renounces his Cheyenne upbringing in order to save himself from being killed. Jack is given the name "Little Big Man" because he is short but very brave. Īs Jack gets older, he unwittingly makes an enemy of another boy, Younger Bear however, Younger Bear eventually owes his life to Jack when he saves Younger Bear's life from a Pawnee brave.
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Caroline escapes, but Jack remains and is reared by the good-hearted tribal leader, Old Lodge Skins. He and his older sister Caroline survived the massacre of their pioneer parents by the Pawnee and are discovered by Shadow, a Cheyenne brave, who takes the siblings to his village. Jack begins his story in a flashback to 1859, when he was 10 years old. Among other things, Crabb claims to have been a captive of the Cheyenne, a gunslinger, an associate of Wild Bill Hickok, a scout for General George Armstrong Custer, and the sole white survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In 1970, 121-year-old Jack Crabb, the oldest man in the world, is residing in a hospice and recounts his life story to a curious historian.
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While broadly categorized as a western, or an epic, the film encompasses several literary/film genres, including comedy, drama and adventure. Little Big Man is a 1970 American Western film directed by Arthur Penn and based on the 1964 novel Little Big Man by Thomas Berger.