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hen a young U.S. college professor, Dustin Hoffman, becomes disillusioned with the violence of American life, he and his wife, Susan George, decide to seek sanctuary in a small university town in England. Sam Pekinpah (The Wild Bunch, Battle of Cable Hogue) is the director so you can bet they don’t find it. The Straw Dogs (International-Cinerama) is the picture.
In her debut film, Cactus Flower, giggling Goldie Hawn won an Oscar as best supporting actress. Her third time out she stars with Warren Beatty in a contemporary action suspense drama set in Hamburg, Germany, written and directed by Richard Brooks. It’s called $ (Dollars) but it might just as well be known as ? to the actors because, following the method of his previous films, Brooks refuses to reveal the story. Instead he discusses the characterization with his performers and hands them the appropriate pages from the script only the night before shooting so they can memorize their lines. From Columbia.
ction, drama and suspense’ is the catch-phrase for more than $. Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel team up again for Dirty Harry (Warner Brothers). Eastwood plays a taciturn, tight-lipped and tough San Francisco cop whose methods of tracking down a maniacal sniper are ethically questionable. Ski champ Jean-Claude Killy makes his acting debut in Snow Job, a Warner Brothers film, as the pivotal player on whose skill rests the heist of a quarter million dollars from a resort in the Italian Alps.
In Labyrinth (Columbia) a young girl is kept sequestered from the outside world, virtually a prisoner, by her mother and grandmother. When her father, accompanied by his mistress, returns after 10 years, his daughter becomes the link between all of them in a chain of violent emotions and conflicts. Sondra Locke, Sally Kellerman and Robert Shaw are involved. What happens to the men we train to kill when the shooting’s all over? Welcome Home, Soldier Boys (20th Century-Fox) attempts an answer.
Action spills over into the films that take on the camera’s new and seemingly infinite fascination with the drug scene. Dealing (WB) was filmed in Toronto on the U of T
campus, and Cisco Pike (Columbia) has it setting across the country in Los Angeles. Singer Kris Kristofferson takes on his first role as Pike, convinced to quit the dealing game by girlfriend Karen Black yet forced to sell grass by crooked narcotics cop Gene Hackman.
ot all the action is violent or despairing. The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (M-G-M), based on the novel by hard-hitting New York journalist Jimmy Breslin, is a comic romp involving inept Brooklyn mobsters and features Jerry Orbach as Kid Sally. “something big” belies the style of its title and stars Dean Martin as the devil-may-care leader of a band of renegades in the frontier West circa 1870 who devise a daring robbery scheme. Burt Bacharach composed the music for this National General release. More comic overtones are apparent in Made For Each Other (20th Century-Fox). Renee Taylor and Joseph Bellona, who wrote Lovers and Other Stangers, wrote this film and star in it as well.
Teenage violence in future society is examined in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Toronto is one of three world cities to see this film in advance of its regular run in June, 1972.
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