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.
Directed by: Ralph Bakshi
Top Billed Cast: Michael Brandon, Joseph Kaufmann, Mary Dean Lauria
Runtime: 77 minutes
Full Cast List ▾
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Joseph Kaufmann
Michael Corleone
Beverly Hope Atkinson
Carole
Frank De Kova
Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
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Terry Haven
Ida Corleone (voice)
Mary Dean Lauria
Molly (voice)
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Jacqueline Mills
Rosalyn Schecter (voice)
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Lillian Adams
Rosa (voice)
Jamie Farr
Arcade Owner
Robert Easton
Charles Gordone
Crazy Moe (voice)
Michael Brandon
(voice)
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Morton Lewis
(voice)
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Bill Striglos
(voice)
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Jay Lawrence
(voice)
Lee Weaver
(voice)
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Phyllis Thompson
(voice)
Kim Hamilton
(voice)
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Carol Graham
(voice)
Candy Candido
The Mafia Messenger (voice)
Helene Winston
(voice)
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William Keene
(voice)
Peter Hobbs
Jerry (voice)
John Bleifer
(voice)
Ralph Bakshi
Various Characters (voice) (uncredited)
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Jimmy Bates
Snowflake (voice)
Walt Gorney
Bum (uncredited)
