 Albert Brooks was also an early popularizer of the mockumentary style with his film "Real Life", 1979, a spoof of the 1973 reality television series "An American Family".Woody Allen's "Take the Money and Run" is presented in documentary-style with Allen playing a fictional criminal, Virgil Starkwell, whose crime exploits are "explored" throughout the film.Jackson Beck, who used to narrate documentaries in the 1940s, provides the voice-over narration.