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Straw dogs, from Cinerama Releasing Corporation ; ABC Pictures Corp. presents ; a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah

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Straw dogs, from Cinerama Releasing Corporation ; ABC Pictures Corp. presents ; a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah
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eng
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MPAA rating: Not rated
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Straw dogs
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991982084
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Filmed on location in the west of England, Trencher's Farm, Pendeen, Cornwall, and at Twickenham Film Studios, Twickenham, Middlesex, England
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from Cinerama Releasing Corporation ; ABC Pictures Corp. presents ; a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah
Runtime
117
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 182
Summary
"In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidiating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world. Working outside the U.S. for the first time, the filmmaker airlifts the ruthlessness of the western frontier into Cornwall in Straw Dogs, pushing his characters to their breaking points as the men brutalize Amy and David discovers how far he'll go to protect his home--culminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic mastermind's eloquent and bloody vision of humanity"--Container
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disc one. [The movie + special features] -- disc two. [Special features]
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
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Sam Peckinpah's Straw dogs
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