Straw Dogs (40th Anniversary Edition) DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Produced in 1971
Main Language - English
Countries & Regions - American film
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Peter Vaughan, David Warner, Colin Welland, T.P. McKenna, Susan George, Peter Arne
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Film Description
Based on Gordon M. Williams's novel 'The Siege 'f Trencher's Farm', and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George, Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs is an unflinching study of primal, barbaric brutality that is generally regarded as one of the strongest statements about violence ever put on screen. It was banned in the UK from 1984 to 2002.
David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) is a quiet American mathematician who comes to live in a Cornish farmhouse with his wife Amy (Susan George). The locals don't take kindly to the young couple's presence, and begin a bullying campaign against them; when this escalates to rape and a direct assault upon the farmhouse, the ordinarily timid David begins to fight back.
Boasting outstanding performances from the two leads, a brilliant supporting cast and Jerry Fielding's superb Oscar-nominated score, Straw Dogs, in the thirty-one years since its original release, has lost none of its intense, visceral power to thrill and shock in equal measure.
DVD Details
Certificate: 18
Publisher: Fremantle Home Entertainment
Length: 113 mins
Region: 0
Cat No: FHED2801
Format: DVD Colour
DVD Extras
- 2 discs
- 1971 On location documentary
- 1971 Original US theatrical trailer
- 1971 US TV & radio spots
- Commentary from Sam Peckinpah Biographers
- Commentary from close friend and PA of Sam Peckinpah: Katy Haber
- Interviews with Susan George, Producer Dan Melnick and Sam Peckinpah Biographer Garner Simmons
- Isolated Jerry Fielding score in Stereo with additional cues
- On location stills
- Original publicity stills
- Film posters & lobby cards
- History of Straw Dogs and the Censors
- Reviews, filmographies, facts & fascinating correspondence
- Before and After: Restoring a classic.
Community Reviews
by Anon on 12th September 2002
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