Directed by:
Sam PeckinpahCinematography:
John CoquillonComposer:
Jerry FieldingCast:
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, David Warner, Ken Hutchison, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett (more)Plots(1)
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. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah’s world. Working outside the U.S. for the first time, the filmmaker airlifts the ruthlessness of the western frontier into Cornwall in Straw Dogs, pushing his characters to their breaking points as the men brutalize Amy and David discovers how far he’ll go to protect his home - culminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic mastermind’s eloquent and bloody vision of humanity. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Dustin Hoffman
USA
Best movies:
Rain Man (1988)
Papillon (1973)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Susan George
UK
Best movies:
Straw Dogs (1971)
Jack the Ripper (1988) (TV movie)
Sonny & Jed (1972)
Peter Vaughan
UK
Best movies:
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999) (TV movie)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
The Legend of 1900 (1998)
T.P. McKenna
Ireland
Best movies:
The Scarlet and the Black (1983) (TV movie)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Holocaust (1978) (series)
David Warner
UK
Best movies:
Titanic (1997)
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001) (TV movie)
The Omen (1976)
Ken Hutchison
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Straw Dogs (1971)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) (TV movie)
Del Henney
Ireland
Best movies:
Jonathan Creek (1997) (series)
Straw Dogs (1971)
A Woman of Substance (1984) (TV movie)
Jim Norton
Ireland
Best movies:
American History X (1998)
Hamlet (2015) (theatrical recording)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Donald Webster
UK
Best movies:
Straw Dogs (1971)
The MacKintosh Man (1973)
Len Jones
Best movies:
Straw Dogs (1971)
Spring and Port Wine (1970)
Sally Thomsett
UK
Best movies:
Baxter! (1973)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Railway Children (1970)
Colin Welland
UK
Best movies:
Kes (1969)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Sweeney! (1977)
Peter Arne
Malaysia
Best movies:
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Far Pavilions (1984) (series)