The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.

A Riotous Assault on Narrative Conventions When the camera rolls on Dogs of War!, the audience is thrust into a pandemonium that feels part slapstick, part avant‑garde protest. The film opens with the gang—an eclectic assembly of juvenile mischief‑makers led by the irrepressible Jack Hill—gathering in a dilapidate...

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Robert F. McGowan

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" A Riotous Assault on Narrative Conventions When the camera rolls on Dogs of War!, the audience is thrust into a pandemonium that feels part slapstick, part avant‑garde protest. The film opens with the gang—an eclectic assembly of juvenile mischief‑makers led by the irrepressible Jack Hill—gathering in a dilapidated barn, their faces smeared with the grime of poverty and ambition. Their weapon of choice? Not guns or explosives, but the very remnants of the earth’s bounty: wilted lettuce, bru..."
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