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Straw Dogs (1971)

R 11/25/1971 Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action 1h 56m
72%
User
Score
7.4/10
82%
73/100

In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.

Overview

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Sam Peckinpah

Director

David Zelag Goodman

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman

David Sumner

Susan George

Susan George

Amy

Peter Vaughan

Peter Vaughan

Tom Hedden

T. P. McKenna

T. P. McKenna

Maj. John Scott

Del Henney

Del Henney

Charlie Venner

Jim Norton

Jim Norton

Chris Cawsey

Donald Webster

Donald Webster

Riddaway

Ken Hutchison

Ken Hutchison

Norman Scutt

Len Jones

Len Jones

Bobby Hedden

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Media

Straw Dogs (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HQ]

Straw Dogs (1971) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HQ]

Linda Williams on Sex, Violence, and STRAW DOGS

Linda Williams on Sex, Violence, and STRAW DOGS

Rod Lurie on STRAW DOGS

Rod Lurie on STRAW DOGS

Josh Olson on STRAW DOGS

Josh Olson on STRAW DOGS

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written on February 16, 2020

This is where I live. This is me. I will not allow violence against this house.

Straw Dogs is directed by Sam Peknipah and Peckinpah co-adapts to screen play with David Zelag Goodman from the novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" written by Gordon Williams. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney and Ken Hutchison. Music is by Jerry Fielding and cinematography by John Coquillon.

A young American maths teacher and his English wife move to the rural English village where she was raised and face increasingly vicious harassment from the locals...

One of Peckinpah's masterpieces (yes you can have more than one), Straw Dogs is an uncompromising dissection of violence, machismo and boundary pushing of the human condition. Controversy around the fil...

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A review by Wuchak

Written on October 28, 2024

**_How far can a civilized man be pushed?_**

A well-to-do couple from America (Dustin Hoffman and Susan George) move back to the wife's hometown near Land’s End in western Cornwall, England, and settle into the vacant homestead. They enlist some roofers whom she knows from her school days, one of them being a former boyfriend (Del Henney). Rivalry is in the air as the laborers try to emasculate Amy’s brainy husband and she questions his manhood. Havoc ensues.

Based on Gordon M. Williams’s novel and helmed by Peckinpah, "Straw Dogs" (1971) is a psychological thriller and so there's a lot of drama and subtle suspense build-up; things don't blow-up until the final act, so to speak. Consequently, anyone looking for mindless action should stay away. There are bits reminiscent of "Of...

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