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  1. English. Budget. $2.2 million [5] or £1,055,829 [6] Box office. $8 million (rentals) [5] Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. [7] The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based on Gordon M. Williams 's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm.

  2. 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.

    • (65K)
    • Crime, Drama, Thriller
    • Sam Peckinpah
    • 1971-12-22
  3. Sep 16, 2011 · Straw Dogs: Directed by Rod Lurie. With James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods. Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South.

    • (36K)
    • Action, Drama, Thriller
    • Rod Lurie
    • 2011-09-16
  4. 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 .

  5. This is a little unsettling, but we soon find that we don't need extras because the movie is going to be in close-up, and the close-ups are going to be of grotesque, melodramatic parodies, larger than life and smaller than cliche. The movie's first shot is of children torturing a dog; the first shot of "The Wild Bunch" was of children torturing ...

  6. Sep 14, 2011 · Based on the book by. This new version of "Straw Dogs" is a reasonably close adaptation of the 1971 film by Sam Peckinpah. Change the location from England to Mississippi, change a mathematician into a screenwriter, keep the bear trap and the cat found strangled, and it tells the same story. It is every bit as violent.

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  8. Tom insists that Henry's brother, John (Peter Arne), "keep a close watch on him". David and Amy are getting ready for bed. The voyeuristic Janice spies on them. After a long night of lecturing and cheating antics, they retire for the night. On the next day, Amy becomes increasingly incensed by David's neglectful ways.

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