Heavy Traffic
Animation
Comedy
Drama
More Spice from the makers of Fritz the Cat!
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.
1973-08-08
en
Cast
Director
Ralph Bakshi
Beverly Hope Atkinson as Carole
Frank De Kova as Angelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
Mary Dean Lauria as Molly (voice)
Jamie Farr as Arcade Owner
Robert Easton
Charles Gordone as Crazy Moe (voice)
Michael Brandon as (voice)
Lee Weaver as (voice)
Kim Hamilton as (voice)
Candy Candido as The Mafia Messenger (voice)
Helene Winston as (voice)
Peter Hobbs as Jerry (voice)
John Bleifer as (voice)
Ralph Bakshi as Various Characters (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Gorney as Bum (uncredited)