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Title: A Classic
Review: Amazing to think that in December of 1971 theatres had DIRTY HARRY by Don Siegel, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Stanley Kubrick and STRAW DOGS by Sam Peckinpah. Whoa! Saw all three when I was 17 and all made a great impression. STRAW DOGS was -- and remains -- a distincly disturbing film. To what lengths will a man go to defend his home and family? This is a longer version than what actually appeared on movie screens in 1971. This has lost none of it's power. Dustin Hoffmann as a nerdy mathematician who goes to live in his English wife (Susan George) village. The locals see him as a weakling and a former flame rapes his wife. Hoffmann reaches the point where a line cannot be crossed. Despite everything, he will not allow a suspected child molester (David Warner) be taken and goes to extremes to defend his home. You'll never look at a bear trap the same ever again. On a sad note ... this is being remade and set in the deep south. Are all the fools in Hollywood smoking dope?
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