Straw Dogs

About Straw Dogs

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised.

Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs is a 1971 crime thriller film. Its themes are england, shocking, countryside, and rural area.

Dustin Hoffman takes the lead as David Sumner, Susan George as Amy, Peter Vaughan as Tom Hedden, and T. P. McKenna as Maj. John Scott. At 116 minutes long, it arrived in November 1971.

The screenplay is by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah. The film began as a novel.

The Revenant, Rebecca, and Sense and Sensibility make useful companions to Straw Dogs, all filed under rape and revenge. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 1,131 votes and it carries a R rating.