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progressoid

(49,979 posts) Mon Aug 19, 2013, 05:33 PM Aug 2013

Elliott Gould on domestic surveillance.

Actually it's Elliott Gould playing Alfred Chamberlain in one of my favorite movies, "Little Murders"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067350/

Little Murders is a 1971 black comedy film starring Elliott Gould and Marcia Rodd, directed by Alan Arkin. It is the story of a girl, Patsy (Rodd), who brings home her boyfriend, Alfred (Gould), to meet her severely dysfunctional family amidst a series of random shootings, garbage strikes and electrical outages ravaging the neighborhood.

The film originated as a play written by cartoonist Jules Feiffer which was staged on Broadway in 1967 but which lasted only seven performances. This failure was followed by a successful London production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Christopher Morahan at the Aldwych Theatre.

It was then revived Off-Broadway in 1969 by Circle in the Square in New York City, directed by Arkin with a cast that included Linda Lavin, Vincent Gardenia, and Fred Willard. That production ran for 400 performances, and won Feiffer an Obie Award. Lavin won the 1969 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Performance.

Elliott Gould as Alfred
Marcia Rodd as Patsy
Vincent Gardenia as Patsy's Father (reprising 1969 stage role)
Elizabeth Wilson as Patsy's Mother (reprising 1969 stage role)
Jon Korkes as Patsy's Brother (reprising 1969 stage role)
John Randolph as Alfred's Father
Doris Roberts as Alfred's Mother
Donald Sutherland as the Rev. Henry Dupas
Alan Arkin as Lt. Practice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Murders