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Review: Straw Dogs (Peckinpah, 1971)
[5 Jan 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

Part of our “Top10Films: Dustin Hoffman” feature
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Dir. Sam Peckinpah; written by Sam Peckinpah, David Zelag Goodman; starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Jim Norton, Ken Hutchison, Donald Webster, Del Henney, David Warner
“I don’t know my way home,” says simpleton Henry Niles to a dishevelled David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) at the end of Sam Peckinpah’s masterpiece “Straw Dogs”. David, with one lens of his spectacles broken and cuts and bruises to his face, smiles and calmly replies: “That’s okay, I don’t either.” The two men drive …