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Genres:
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Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Sam Peckinpah
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Actors:
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Peter Vaughan,
T.P. McKenna,
Colin Welland,
Chloe Franks,
Len Jones,
Del Henney,
Donald Webster,
Sally Thomsett,
Cherina Schaer,
June Brown,
Michael Mundell,
Dustin Hoffman,
Susan George,
Jim Norton,
Ken Hutchison,
Robert Keegan,
Peter Arne
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Duration:
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118 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)128
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Plot Summary:
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A quiet, peace-loving American moves with his English wife to an isolated village where he is harrassed by town bullies. He is finally pushed into a violent confrontation in call for to protect himself and his woman.
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Past sell by date
Thought I would give this film a re run since first viewing a number of years ago. It was a good film in its time but has now lost its impact. Nostalgia sometimes isn't a good thing.
Not pleasant, but unmissable.
The controversy that surrounded this film may have sold tickets, but it distracts from the true qualities of the film. Some film catalogues apparently bill this as ?horror?, and much of it?s reputation is based on the violence (ungraphic by today's standrds)of the last third. I think the publicity of the time ran along the lines ?From the man who unloosed the Wild Bunch comes Hoffman unleashed?. But that would have been was the studio publicity department idea, not Peckinpah?s.
This is a far deeper, more subtle film than all that would suggest. It is about violence, but it?s about the
unpredictability of the consequences of violence; about how it solves nothing, but once started can gain a life and momentum of its own. It?s also a film about isolation, about failures of c...
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