Heavy Traffic

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.

• Ralph BakshiDirector
• Ralph BakshiScreenplay
• Ray ShanklinOriginal Music Composer
• Ed BogasOriginal Music Composer

• Joseph KaufmannMichael Corleone
• Beverly Hope AtkinsonCarole
• Frank De KovaAngelo "Angie" Corleone (voice)
• Terry HavenIda Corleone (voice)
• Mary Dean LauriaMolly (voice)
• Jacqueline MillsRosalyn Schecter (voice)
• Lillian AdamsRosa (voice)
• Jamie FarrArcade Owner
• Robert EastonCast
• Charles GordoneCrazy Moe (voice)
• Michael Brandon(voice)
• Morton Lewis(voice)