Straw Dogs

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Call Number: DVD Drama Straw
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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From Cinerama Releasing Corp. Presented by ABC Pictures Corp.
Based on the novel: The siege of Trencher's farm / Gordon M. Williams.
DVD version of a 1971 motion picture, with added special features: Disc one: uncut version of movie, with optional audio commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince ; Disc two: Sam Peckinpah : man of iron / Lucida Productions for BBC Television ; produced by Chris Rodley; directed by Paul Joyce (1991 documentary of reflections by members of Peckinpah's family, his friends, and his collaborators; 83 min.); On location : Dustin Hoffman / directed by Iain Johnstone (26 min.); behind-the-scenes footage; videointerviews with actress Susan George and producer Daniel Melnick; Peckinpah responds: select correspondence to critics and viewers; theatrical trailer and TV spots.
Accompanying booklet contains a reprinted interview with Sam Peckinpah from 1974, and an essay by poet Joshua Clover.
Disc 1. The movie. -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Ken Hutchison.
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies savagery and violence.
DVD format. Mono.
Contents: Siege of Trencher's farm.

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Early Hoffman and early Sam Peckenpah submitted by ccrose on August 31, 2019, 9:18pm Just knowing the director should cue you to extraordinary violence. The English countryside is the setting and Hoffmann and Susan George live In a falling down cottage. Hoffman is inept at the basics , even lighting a fire. Workmen, locals, organize a plan to kill him and rape her.
It’s rather a surprise that Hoffman is in this movie. He’d done The Graduate. But Sam Peckenpah has plans. Violence is horrific and lasts a long time. Peckenpah is honing his skills.

Straw Dogs submitted by jibkidder on July 30, 2022, 8:31am A brutal, divisive Peckinpah which I can't help but love.