Straw Dogs
Summary:
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 pr... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Dustin Hoffman - (David)
Susan George - (Amy)
Peter Vaughan - (Tom Hedden)
T.P. McKenna - (Maj. Scott)
David Warner - (Henry Niles)
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Review:
Upon its release (within a month of Stanley Kubrick's similar meditation on ultra-violence, A Clockwork Orange), Straw Dogs sharply divided critics and audiences over whether it exploited and glorified macho bloodshed or commented on the violence that had become a fact of 1960s American life. Peckinpah proclaimed his own distaste for vi... Continue >>
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