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Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm.
Straw Dogs is a 2011 American action thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs, itself based on the Gordon Williams novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. It stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth.
Dec 22, 1971 · Straw Dogs: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1971-12-22
Sep 16, 2011 · A screenwriter and his wife move to her hometown in the South, where he faces a violent conflict with local men. IMDb provides cast and crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this action drama thriller directed by Rod Lurie.
- (36K)
- Action, Drama, Thriller
- Rod Lurie
- 2011-09-16
A controversial thriller by Sam Peckinpah, starring Dustin Hoffman as a mathematician who faces violent men in a Cornish village. The film features commentary, documentary, interviews, and more extras on the Criterion Blu-ray release.
- David Sumner
Sep 14, 2011 · A screenwriter and his wife move to a rural area where they face violence and aggression from the locals. Roger Ebert praises the film as a close adaptation of Peckinpah's original, but finds it more disturbing and realistic than the 1971 version.
Roger Ebert criticizes Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" for its hypocrisy and melodrama, comparing it unfavorably to "The Wild Bunch". He finds the violence unselective and the characters cliche, and questions the moral message of the film.
