A lot of Woody Allen’s earlier stuff doesn’t hang together very well, but that’s what I like about it — he’s just throwing sight gags and surrealism and Catskills humor at the wall and seeing what sticks, and most of it does.   A few of the bits drag (the Howard Cosell stuff a little bit, but mostly the courtroom gags with him questioning himself), but if you liked Take The Money And Run, you’d like this too — it’s short, and it really pops.   Things to look for: an uncredited Stallone in the subway scene, Charlotte Rae playing Woody’s mother (!), and the dinner-check bit, which really tickled me for some reason.

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