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JOE
The script by Norman Wexler, often profanely funny, is a
hybrid of veristic dialogue and incredible action. A New York
advertising executive murders the hippie-junkie lover of his
daughter who has put the girl on drugs. In a bar the murderer
dazedly mentions his crime to a factory-worker named Joe
Curran whom we have just heard spouting, in hard-hat
fashion, about "niggers" and young punks. Far from black
mailing the wealthy murderer, Joe insists on becoming his
friend, out of ideological sympathy, and eventually joins him
in an East Village search for the missing daughter. The ending
is both predictable and nonsensical, with the mass murder of
commune-dwellers by Joe and friend.
The outstanding aspect of the script is its ambivalence. A
coincidence highlights this. Joe is now playing in two New
York theaters. On the East Side, where I saw it, Joe's
mouthings drew laughs, and the East Village swingers drew
applause. The very same night a friend saw the picture at its
Broadway theater where, she reports, Joe was a hero to at
least some and where one woman said, after the final shoot-up,
"We should kill 'em all."
Besides its neatly balanced viewpoint, to make it all things
to all men, besides its unbelievable story, the script makes no
attempt at exploration of its materials: it simply uses what we
know already about every stereotyped character and idea it
employs. All these factors make Joe liable to the charge of
sheer exploitation. Nevertheless, the picture has some force
because of Peter Boyle's performance as Joe. Boyle has great
reservoirs of quiet malevolence that give him real cinematic
menace, tacit and screen-filling; and he also has the humor to
keep Joe from being monotonous.
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STRAW DOGS
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STRAW DOGS
A film of startling suspense and involvement wherein a
young couple's idyllic life is disrupted, The ABC Pictures
Corp. presentation was filmed on location in the west of
England from a screenplay by Peckinpah and David Z.
Goodman, based on a novel by Gordon M. Williams. Daniel
Melnick was the producer. The music was by Jerry Fielding.
Hoffman plays the unusual role of a quiet young American
who moves with his English wife portrayed by Susan George,
to a farmhouse outside a seemingly peaceful Cornish village.
Their placid life is interrupfed when fhey discover fhat the
savagery and violence they sought to escape is about to engulf
them.
Sam Peckinpah, the highly respected and sometimes
controversial director of Straw Dogs, has created a film which
adds a new dimension to his highly acclaimed career. Con
sidered a specalist in the American West, he has attracted the
attention of a cinematic "cult" for his previous successes
including "The Wild Bunch," "The Ballad of Cable Hogue"
and Ride the High Country."