Heavy Traffic
- Studio
- Steve Krantz Productions, Orion Pictures
- Distributor
- American International Pictures
Synopsis
A white dropout struggles to create comics and animated films, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his run-down apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nut-case of a Jewish mother, he is 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. This cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, destroyed by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
Characters
Michael Corleone, Carole, Angelo "Angie" Corleone, Ida Corleone, Molly, Rosalyn Schecter, Rosa, Snowflake, Bum
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Ralph Bakshi
Producing
- Producer
- Samuel Z. Arkoff, Steve Krantz
- Co-Producer
- Mark L. Rosen
Writing
- Writer
- Ralph Bakshi
Voices
- Voice
- Joseph Kaufmann (Michael Corleone), Beverly Hope Atkinson (Carole), Frank DeKova (Angelo "Angie" Corleone), Terri Haven (Ida Corleone), Mary Dean Lauria (Molly), Jacqueline Mills (Rosalyn Schecter), Lillian Adams (Rosa), Jim Bates (Snowflake [uncredited]), Walt Gorney (Bum [uncredited]), Jamie Farr, Robert Easton, Charles Gordone, Michael Brandon, Morton Lewis, Bill Striglos, Jay Lawrence, Lee Weaver, Phyllis Thompson, Kim Hamilton, Carol Graham, Candy Candido, Helene Winston, William Keene, Peter Hobbs, John Bleifer, Ralph Bakshi (uncredited)
Music
- Music
- Ray Shanklin, Ed Bogas
- Composer (Song "Take Five")
- Dave Brubeck
Animation
- Animator
- Bob Bemiller, Bob Bransford, Ed De Mattia, Manny Gould, Mily Gray, Fred Hellmich, Alex Ignatiev, Volus Jones, Bob Maxfield, Manuel Perez, Bernard Posner, Tom Ray, Bob Richardson, Irven Spence, Bob Bemiller, Nick Tafuri, Bob Bransford, Martin Taras, Manny Gould, Robert Taylor, Milton Gray, David Tendlar, Fred Hellmich, Lloyd Vaughan, Alex Ignatiev, Carlo Vinci, Volus Jones, John E. Walker Sr, Bob Maxfield, Manuel Perez, Barney Posner, Tom Ray, Bob Richardson, Irven Spence, Nick Tafuri, Martin Taras, Robert Taylor, Dave Tendlar, Lloyd Vaughan, Carlo Vinci, J.E. Walker Sr, Ed Demattia
- Layouts
- Ric Gonzalez, Don Morgan, Alan Shean, John Sparey, Robert Taylor, Al Wilson
- Animator (Fantasy Animation)
- Mark Kausler
- Assistant Animators
- Fred Abranz, Ann Marie Babbitt, Jack Bailey, O.E. Barkley, Tom Baron, Chris Dane, Daniel De La Vega, Lou Irwin, Mark Karen, Lianna Kelley, Fred McManus, Ann Ray, Sonja Ruta, Fred Abranz, Norm Rutherford, Ann Marie Babbitt, Ephrem Solis, Jack Bailey, Grace Stanzell, O.B. Barkley, Joan Swanson, Tom Baron, Robert Tyler, Jean Blanchard, Art Vitello, Joan Case, Gwen Wetzler, Sukhdev Dail, Chris Dane, Daniel De La Vega, Joseph Gray, Lew Irwin, Mark Karen, Lianna Kelley, Chris Lane, Fred McManus, Anna Lois Ray, Sonja Ruta, Norm Rutherford, Ephrem Solis, Grace Stanzell, Bob Tyler, Art Vitello, John Walker, Gwen Wetzler
- Fantasy Animation
- Mark Kausler
- Animation Checkers
- Dotti Foell, Robert Revell
- Final Checkers
- Janet Cummings, Sue Dalton, Martha Harrison, M. Frann McCracken
Art Department
- Background Artists
- William Butler, John Vita
- Color Modeler
- Ellie Zika
- Background Assistants
- Matt Golden, Joe Griffith
- Background Drawings
- Ira Turek
- Ink And Paint Artists
- Mary J. Adams, E.L. Bailey, Bernice Bissett, Pernella Butler, B. Davenport, Eve Fletcher, Melissa Freeman, Colene Gonzales, C. Hart, Renee Holt, Marsha Hunt, Conne Morgan, Diane Proud, Else Rehme, Nelda Ridley, Irene Sandberg, Hetta Van Elk
- Background Photography
- Ralph Bakshi, John Vita
Visual Effects
- Special Effects
- Susan Jonas
Camera
- Photography
- Ted C. Bemiller, Gregg Heschong
Editing
- Editor
- Donald W. Ernst
- Assistant Editor
- Sharron Miller
- Negative Cutter
- Jack Hooper, Jack Hooper
Music Department
- Music Supervisor
- Ray Shanklin
- Conductor
- Ed Bogas
- Music Arrangers
- Ed Bogas, Ray Shanklin
Production Management
- Production Manager
- Harry Love
- Production Coordinator
- Juanita McClurg
- Production Coordinator For The Director
- Wanda Mull
Crew
- Character Creator
- Ralph Bakshi
Production notes
Originally released as an X-rated animated film, this movie was edited down to an R rating for a re-release effort (and paired with "The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat."
