Heavy Traffic (1973)
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
Director:
Ralph Bakshi
Writer:
Ralph Bakshi
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Joseph Kaufmann as Michael Corleone |
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Beverly Hope Atkinson as Carole |
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Frank De Kova as Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice) |
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Terry Haven as Ida Corleone (voice) |
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Mary Dean Lauria as Molly (voice) |
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Jacqueline Mills as Rosalyn Schecter (voice) |
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Lillian Adams as Rosa (voice) |
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Jamie Farr as Arcade Owner |
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Robert Easton as |
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Charles Gordone as Crazy Moe (voice) |
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Michael Brandon as (voice) |
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Morton Lewis as (voice) |
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Bill Striglos as (voice) |
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Jay Lawrence as (voice) |
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Lee Weaver as (voice) |
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Phyllis Thompson as (voice) |
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Kim Hamilton as (voice) |
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Carol Graham as (voice) |
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Candy Candido as The Mafia Messenger (voice) |
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Helene Winston as (voice) |
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William Keene as (voice) |
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Peter Hobbs as Jerry (voice) |
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John Bleifer as (voice) |
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Ralph Bakshi as Various Characters (voice) (uncredited) |
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Jimmy Bates as Snowflake (voice) |
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Walt Gorney as Bum (uncredited) |
| Directing | Ralph Bakshi | Director |
| Writing | Ralph Bakshi | Screenplay |
| Visual Effects | Milton Gray | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Art Vitello | Animation |
| Crew | Gregg Heschong | Cinematography |
| Editing | Donald W. Ernst | Editor |
| Crew | Ted C. Bemiller | Cinematography |
| Sound | Ed Bogas | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Ray Shanklin | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Ted C. Bemiller | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Gregg Heschong | Director of Photography |
| Art | Dan Perri | Title Designer |
| Production | Samuel Z. Arkoff | Producer |
| Production | Steve Krantz | Producer |
