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- Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.
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Along with Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Straw Dogs stands as a transgressively violent, deeply '70s film; one that still retains its power to shock after all these years." [34] Film director Quentin Tarantino considers Straw Dogs one of Peckinpah's "masterpieces".
Dec 22, 1971 · 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
Along with Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, Straw Dogs stands as a transgressively violent, deeply '70s film; one that still retains its power to shock after all these years." [20] Film director Quentin Tarantino considers Straw Dogs one of Peckinpah's "masterpieces". [21]
Roger Ebert December 27, 1971. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Sam Peckinpah's " The Wild Bunch ," one of the great movies of the decade, saw violence as essentially unselective.
Film scholar Linda Williams explores the political implications of Sam Peckinpah’s brutal suspense film and its highly controversial intermingling of sex and violence.
- David Sumner
American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) is walking along a road while his newly acquired wife and one-time resident, Amy Sumner (Susan George), is parading braless and carrying a rather nasty-looking device called a 'mantrap'.
In short Sam Peckinpah is having a laugh at the expense of the establishment. It’s not his best film (Choose between CROSS OF IRON or THE WILD BUNCH) but it is his most extreme and infamous film and that alone makes it worth watching. Straw Dogs (1971) Review by Wayne Malin. Badly dated,
