 In a rare comic role, Dunaway played the sexually repressed wife of a minister who helps raise and seduce a boy raised by Native Americans, played by Dustin Hoffman.The film was widely praised by critics and was one of Dunaway's few commercial successes at this point.That same year, she appeared in the lead role in "Puzzle of a Downfall Child" (1970), an experimental drama directed by Jerry Schatzberg and inspired by the life of model Anne St. Marie.