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1. 'Take the Money and Run'

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Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) in 'Take the Money and Run' (1969)


Woody Allen's first film as a director was this hilarious mockumentary about a persistent but utterly inept bank robber. Such classic gags as the illegible stick-up note ("I Have a Gub") and the gun carved from soap (which a rainstorm transforms into foamy lather) make Virgil the lead inductee in the Dumb Movie Criminals Hall of Fame.