Popi

Popi (1969) was especially noted for the strong performance by Alan Arkin as an immigrant in Spanish Harlem who stages an elaborate scam to gain a better life for his two sons.

…Puerto Rican single father in Popi (1969), and he played Captain Yossarian in Nichols’s Catch-22 (1970), based on the 1961 novel by Joseph Heller. Arkin directed and acted in the film Little Murders (1971), having earlier (1969) directed an Off-Broadway revival of that play, written by Jules Feiffer. He later…