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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.
- Sam Peckinpah
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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.
- $2.2 million or £1,055,829
- Daniel Melnick
A young American mathematician ( Dustin Hoffman) comes to the village with his wife ( Susan George ), an English girl whose father owns a home there. They plan to make repairs and settle down while he gets on with his work. His work involves theory on the interiors of stars, but never mind; for Peckinpah's purposes he is an Intellectual.
Ken Bridgeman. Makeup. Harry Frampton. 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.
- David Sumner
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Summaries. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction.
Straw Dogs (1971) Movie Info Synopsis David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy (Susan George), an Englishwoman.
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- Drama, Mystery & Thriller
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