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Straw Dogs
film by Peckinpah [1971]
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discussed in biography
- In Sam Peckinpah: Bloody Sam
Straw Dogs (1971), however, was another violent, boundary-breaking drama. The film, which was cowritten by Peckinpah, starred Dustin Hoffman as a mild-mannered American mathematician who moves to rural England with his British wife (Susan George). When she is raped by one of her old suitors,…
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role of Hoffman
- In Dustin Hoffman
…violently defends his home in Straw Dogs (1971), the self-destructive comic Lenny Bruce in Lenny (1974), and an ex-convict who cannot resist the lure of crime in Straight Time (1978). The decade also saw Hoffman playing journalist Carl Bernstein as he and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) investigate the Watergate
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