Tuesday, 7 February 2012

'WHAT DO YOU THINK, DUSTIN?'




'Straw Dogs' director, Sam Peckinpah, goes over a production point with Dustin Hoffman as TP looks on. In the film, TP's character wears his arm in a sling, though the sling was for real, his shoulder had been badly dislocated at a pre-shoot party organised by the director.

Peckinpah looks very old Hollywood here with the cloth cap reversed and a cigarette hanging louchely from his mouth.  His relaxation during set-up changes was knife-throwing.

A version of this picture hung for many years in Luigi's of Covent Garden which was London's premiere restaurant for the theatre fraternity.

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