STRAW DOGS [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1971
• Genre: Classic, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah's most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world. Working outside the U.S. for the first time, the filmmaker airlifts the ruthlessness of the western frontier into Cornwall in Straw Dogs, pushing his characters to their breaking points as the men brutalize Amy and David discovers how far he'll go to protect his home—culminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic mastermind's eloquent and bloody vision of humanity.;
• Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Ken Hutchison, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett, Robert Keegan, Peter Arne, Cherina Schaer, Colin Welland, Michael Mundell, David Warner, Sam Peckinpah, David Zelag Goodman, Gordon Williams, Daniel Melnick, John Coquillon, Roger Spottiswoode, Paul Davies, Tony Lawson, Jerry Fielding, John Bramall, Ray Simm, Ken Bridgeman
• Director: Sam Peckinpah
• Runtime: 1:57
• Company: Cinerama Releasing Corporation, ABC Pictures Corp., Talent Associates Films, Ltd., Amerbroco Films, Ltd., The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie