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| Ken Hutchison in STRAW DOGS Year: 1971 Rating: ***** |
American director Sam Peckinpah's THE WILD BUNCH is considered his peak — yet an even wilder albeit initially more subtle and ambiguous bunch exist within the British-set (and extremely British-styled) STRAW DOGS...
Where nuclear scientist Dustin Hoffman attempts much needed study-time in an old stone-cobbled house with young wife Susan George, who's more like the locals she grew up around than him...
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| Dustin Hoffman in STRAW DOGS |
Which is the entire character-driven theme: an indoors mind-game involving Hoffman and George's David and Amy Sumner... until the men they hired to work on the greenhouse become deadly antagonists...
This takes a while, though, as other characters are added, like Colin Welland as a surprisingly open-minded vicar; T.P. McKenna as the local cop; Sally Thomsett a flirtatious young beauty; her old tough father in group leader Peter Vaughan; and David Warner as a Lenny from OF MICE AND MEN type... that only the outsider feels sorry for...
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| Ken Hutchison in STRAW DOGS |
Meanwhile, the buried lead involves Amy's background with Del Henney's handsome Charlie Vedder... the latter being surreptitiously shadowed by an extremely jealous competitor...
Not the oblivious husband, who can't connect with his immature wife, but the seediest of locals as Ken Hutchison (sidekick with rat-catching scene-stealer Jim Norton) plays ex-convict Norman Scutt...
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| Ken Hutchison in STRAW DOGS |
With narrowed eyes forming a malicious scowl, Hutchison turns a controversial rape sequence... where Susan George eventually obliges to Henney's Charlie... into a double-rape that had Peckinpah deemed a Fascist filmmaker...
As the chaotic plot-line, from a couple's bickering to a violent standoff where Bloody Sam feels right at home (while making a picturesque countryside seem sparse and murky) doesn't center on heroes, antiheroes or hellbent villains, but extremely flawed humans fighting for their own place in purgatory.
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Susan George in STRAW DOGS with Dustin Hoffman
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Del Henney in STRAW DOGS with Susan George
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