A Sweet Ending
The film is very loosely based on an 18 minute blues song recorded by Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody Guthrie, if you need a refresher course in American folk song troubadours). This sort of talking-song- saga celebrates his arrest for littering after a Thanksgiving meal with Alice and Ray Brock. The litterbug arrest saved him from getting drafted during the Viet Nam War. The film was conceived and directed by Arthur Penn, who also directed Bonnie And Clyde and Little Big Man. It is definitely a kinder, gentler film about the hippie counter-culture of my youth. You will see an early Joannie Mitchell, and Lee Hays and Peter Seeger of the The Weavers fame. Some of the real life characters (and I include the blind judge at Arlo’s trial) play themselves in the film.
Although she played an extra in the film, there really is an Alice Brock and her partner Ray. And yes, they did live in a church and she did have a
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