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Brutal and Unreformed—Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ at 50

It is a luminous performance, and while David might have been the hero-protagonist of Straw Dogs, Amy is its doomed center—a prisoner of the primitive society in which she was raised.

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Brutal and Unreformed—Sam Peckinpah’s ‘Straw Dogs’ at 50
Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner in Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971)
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