Richard Dreyfuss and Harvey Keitel

Rating: Null/10 (2 October 2002)

There is one scene that floors me when watching "The Graduate." Toward the end of the film, Elaine confronts Benjamin in the room he's renting at the boarding house. Suddenly the door opens and Norman Fell as the boarding house operator comes in. The doorway is filled with nosy male residents looking in on the argument. On one side of the door, a young Richard Dreyfuss announces "Someone should call the cops. You want me to go call the cops? I'll go call the cops." On the other side of the door, Harvey Keitel watches but has no lines.
Dustin Hoffman had gotten his break into film with a short cameo in THE TIGER MAKES OUT, as a boyfriend who, his back to the camera, dumps the girl Eli Wallach will spend the rest of the film obsessing over. Seems only fair that a Dustin Hoffman film give a similar break to two future stars.