Tonight I viewed two 400 footer with a view to selling them on thinking that both would have started fading, however, to my happy surprise both are still excellent colour prints with no fade at all,
This one, Woody Allen’s Take the Money and run is an ABC release, I have seen a few of these for sale all with fade, (hence my thoughts before viewing). This is the 400 foot version which is actually very well edited. The print is good but not quite pin sharp so my vote for this is B+ / A- but the sound is very good, the colours excellent. The actual print itself is in very good shape and only suffers with a skinny black line that comes and goes in the centre. This has been there since the day we bought it off a Derann list years ago. The foreseeable future of t his print is with me.
The only scene hats edited out of this one which I was a bit disappointed with is when Woody Allen’s character is holding up a bloke a gun point, The gun is carved from soap and during the stick up it rains, when the camera cuts back to him his hand is covered in thick soapy lather. Aside this missing scene the edit is first class.

Here is the plot edited to this 400 foot version.
Virgil Starkwell's (Woody Allen) story is told in documentary style, using both stock footage and interviews with people who knew him. He begins a life of crime at a young age. As a child, Virgil is a frequent target of bullies, who snatch his glasses and stomp on them on the floor. As an adult, Virgil is inept and unlucky, and both police and judges ridicule him by stomping on Virgil's glasses.
Virgil falls in love with a young lady, Louise (Janet Margolin), a laundry worker, and they live together.
Virgil is arrested for trying to rob a bank after handing to a teller a threatening note with the word "gun" misspelled.
He does escape, but by accident. Joining a mass breakout plan, Virgil is the only inmate not warned that the scheme had been called off.
Outside but unemployed, and desperate Virgil again is eventually captured when attempting to rob a former friend who reveals he is now a cop. He is sentenced to 800 years, but remains upbeat knowing that "with good behaviour, I can get that cut in half". In the last scene, he is shown carving a bar of soap and asking the interviewer if it is raining outside.

Funny film from Allens better period. He is not as funny anymore

he seemed to make some really great stuff then vanished in the early 90s.