Kleine Mörder (1971)

Kleine Mörder: Directed by Alan Arkin. With Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson. Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

“When they were all in their heyday, Elliott Gould, Alan Arkin (who also directed) and Donald Sutherland collaborated on the over-the-top black comedy u0026quot;Little Murdersu0026quot;, in which Gould plays emotionally vacant New York photographer Alfred Chamberlain, hooking up with vivacious young Patsy Newquist (Marcia Rodd) in the midst of several hundred unsolved homicides in the Big Apple. In the process of everything, the series of events exposes the flaws in all the characters, especially Patsyu0026#39;s parents (Vincent Gardenia and Elizabeth Wilson).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI think that my two favorite scenes are the appearances of Sutherland and Arkin. Sutherland plays a priest who seems to be a cross between Sutherlandu0026#39;s characters from u0026quot;MASHu0026quot; and u0026quot;Kellyu0026#39;s Heroesu0026quot;; Arkin plays a detective who spouts out the craziest monologue explaining why thereu0026#39;s a conspiracy behind the murders. Overall, this is very much a New York kind of movie. I should identify that there are several very long scenes during the movie, but itu0026#39;s certainly not a flick that youu0026#39;ll forget anytime soon. Impressive.”