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Straw Dogs
Running Time: 118 min.
Produced By: / ABC / Cinerama

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 Hoff... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew:
Dustin Hoffman (David)
Susan George (Amy)
Peter Vaughan (Tom Hedden)
T.P. McKenna (Maj. Scott)
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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 tha ... Continue >>