Straw Dogs (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Dustin Hoffman
David Sumner
Susan George
Amy
Peter Vaughan
Tom Hedden
T. P. McKenna
Maj. John Scott
T.P.
Maj. John Scott
Del Henney
Charlie Venner
Jim Norton
Chris Cawsey
Donald Webster
Riddaway
Ken Hutchison
Norman Scutt
Len Jones
Bobby Hedden
Sally Thomsett
Janice Hedden
Robert Keegan
Harry Ware
Peter Arne
John Niles
Cherina Schaer
Louise Hood
Colin Welland
Rev. Barney Hood
June Brown
Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)
Jimmy Charters
Man in Pub (uncredited)
Chloe Franks
Emma Hebden (uncredited)
Michael Mundell
Bertie Hedden (uncredited)
David Warner
Henry Niles (uncredited)
Sam Peckinpah
Director / Screenplay
Roger Spottiswoode
Editor
Jerry Fielding
Original Music Composer
Miriam Brickman
Casting
Gordon Williams
Novel
Tony Lawson
Editor
David Zelag Goodman
Screenplay
John Coquillon
Director of Photography
Ray Simm
Production Design
Ken Bridgeman
Art Direction
Daniel Melnick
Producer
Norman Savage
Sound Editor
Garth Craven
Sound Editor
John Bramall
Sound Recordist
Harry Frampton
Makeup Artist
Sue Longhurst
Stunt Double
Billy Cornelius
Stunt Coordinator
Paul Davies
Editor
James Swann
Associate Producer
Bobbie Smith
Hairdresser
Peter Frampton
Assistant Makeup Artist
Derek Kavanagh
Production Supervisor
Terry Marcel
Assistant Director
Nick Farnes
Assistant Director
Michael Murray
Third Assistant Director
Gary White
Second Assistant Director
Roy Pembrooke
Props
Julia Trevelyan Oman
Other
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 25, 1971
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 56m
Content RatingR
Budget$2,200,000
Box Office$3,251,794
Filming LocationsSt Buryan, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
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. The film's title derives from a discussion in the Tao Te Ching that likens people to the ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog, being of ceremonial worth, but afterwards discarded with indifference.
The film is noted for its violent concluding sequences and two complicated rape scenes, which were censored by numerous film rating boards. Released theatrically the same year as A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection and Dirty Harry, the film sparked heated controversy over a perceived increase of violence in films generally.The film premiered in the U.K. in November 1971. Although controversial at the time, Straw Dogs is considered by some critics to be one of Peckinpah's greatest films, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music (Original Dramatic Score). A remake directed by Rod Lurie and starring James Marsden and Kate Bosworth was released on September 16, 2011.