Advertisement
Join Spout
Sign in
you
You
Take a tour of spout.com
Join Spout!
Sign in
Learn more about us
Downloads
movies
Browse movies
Now in theaters
Coming soon to theaters
New on DVD
Coming soon to DVD
Trailers
Genres
Newsletters
Recent Spoutblog posts
FilmCouch
Film festival coverage
Community movie buzz
Community activity just now
Recent community reviews
Community tags
Recent lists
Get recommendation with SpoutMind
Browse store
mavens
Browse Movie Mavens
Recent maven reviews
View all mavens
Top bloggers
Top listers
Busy people
Search people
What's a maven?
communities
Browse Communities
Recent discussions
Recent list activity
Popular groups
Most movies
Most talkative
Straw Dogs (1971)
Want to see it?
Seen it?
0
1
2
3
4
5
Rate this movie.
Want to buy it?
Write a review
Discuss it
Add to lists
Recommend it
Get recommendations
Rent it, watch it, find it
Advertisement
Synopsis & reviews
Related movies
Cast & crew
Synopsis
Sam Peckinpah
examines the instinctual capacity for violence in his controversial 1971 film, loosely based on the novel The Siege of Trencher's Farm. To avoid the Vietnam-era social chaos in the U.S., American mathematician David Sumner (
Dustin Hoffman
) moves with his British wife Amy (
Susan George
) to the isolated Cornish town where she grew up, but their presence provokes antagonism among the village's men. As the hostilities escalate from routine bullying to the gang rape of his wife, David finds his pacifistic self backed into a corner. When the hooligans attack his house, David finally resorts to the gruesome violence that he abhors. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
Cast
Susan George
Amy
T.P. McKenna
Maj. Scott
Peter Vaughan
Tom Hedden
David Warner
Henry Niles
Dustin Hoffman
David
Colin Welland
Rev. hood
Production Crew
Ken Bridgeman
Art Director
Gordon M. Williams
Book Author
John Coquillon
Cinematographer
Jerry Fielding
Composer (Music Score)
Tiny Nicholls
Costume Designer
Sam Peckinpah
Director
Garth Craven
Editor
Paul Davies
Editor
Robert Wolfe
Editor
Roger Spottiswoode
Editor
Tony Lawson
Editor
Harry Frampton
Makeup
Daniel Melnick
Producer
Ray Simm
Production Designer
David Zelag Goodman
Screenwriter
Sam Peckinpah
Screenwriter
Peter James
Set Designer
John Richardson
Special Effects
Year: 1971
Runtime: 118
Country: UK
MPAA Rating:
Category: Feature
Genre
Thriller
Color type
Eastmancolor
Produced by
ABC
Cinerama
Privacy
Safety
Legal
Report bad behavior
© 2008 Spout LLC. Portions of content provided by All Movie Guide.