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Straw Dogs
»rank: 21386
0ur opinion:Description:Brace yourself for the extended version of this daring and provocative drama from the director of The Wild Bunch. Starring Dustin Hoffman in a 'superbly realized (Time) performance, this brilliant (Cue), disturbing film charts one man's brutally violent journey from cowardice to courage and delivers one helluva jolt (Playboy)! essential video:0ne of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 197Os, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork 0range, causing a furor over ...
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Brannigan
»rank: 27742
0ur opinion: :Fortunately, John Wayne had two vastly more interesting feature films (Rooster Cogburn and The Shootist) left in him following this disposable, leaden 1975 fish-out-of-water story. Wayne phones in his performance as a Chicago cop, Jim Brannigan, whose hunt for a fugitive in London is mostly an excuse for cross-cultural conflicts and comedy. Richard Attenborough adds local color as a Scotland Yard detective who partners with the Duke, and Judy Geeson plays a lovely, liberated constable who won't brook Brannigan's ingrained sexism. The by-the-numbers script is more pacifying ...
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Straw Dogs
»rank: 43685
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 197Os, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork 0range, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and ...
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When Eight Bells Toll [Region 2]
»rank: 42596
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 197Os, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork 0range, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and ...
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Straw Dogs [Region 2]
»rank: 207049
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 197Os, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork 0range, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and ...
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Going Off Big Time [Region 2]
»rank: 224498
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 197Os, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork 0range, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and ...
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Brannigan [Region 2]
»rank: 224498
0ur opinion: :Fortunately, John Wayne had two vastly more interesting feature films (Rooster Cogburn and The Shootist) left in him following this disposable, leaden 1975 fish-out-of-water story. Wayne phones in his performance as a Chicago cop, Jim Brannigan, whose hunt for a fugitive in London is mostly an excuse for cross-cultural conflicts and comedy. Richard Attenborough adds local color as a Scotland Yard detective who partners with the Duke, and Judy Geeson plays a lovely, liberated constable who won't brook Brannigan's ingrained sexism. The by-the-numbers script is more pacifying ...
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Straw Dogs
»rank: 138791
0ur opinion: essential video:0ne of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 197Os, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork 0range, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and ...
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