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Straw Dogs: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna. A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Straw Dogs: Directed by Rod Lurie. With James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods. Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South.
There he meets local one-armed magistrate John Scott (T.P. McKenna), who informs of David's invitation to a church social the coming Thursday and accompanies him to the house where he meets Reverend Barny Hood (Colin Welland) and his wife. Back in the house, David is introduced to Barny and his wife.
Screenwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy travel in his Jaguar to her hometown, Blackwater, Mississippi. Amy's father has died and David intends to write his Stalingrad screenplay in the house. He hires contractor Charlie and his team to repair the barn roof.
Straw Dogs (1971) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Actress: Straw Dogs. Her mother, Billie, was an ex chorus girl and her father was a musician who had a small part in the film Straw Dogs and she has a sister, Pam. At one time her parents owned The Court Hotel.
Straw Dogs is an intense thriller that shows what can happen when you push even the most mild mannered man too far. Dustin Hoffman plays a mathematician who temporarily moves to a house in a rural village in England with his wife, a former resident of the town, played by Susan George.
"Straw Dogs" is a Drama - Thriller movie in which we watch a man with his wife going to her hometown but soon they will have to face some tensions and conflicts with the locals after the occurrence of some events.
Most famously there was the controversial double rape scene in Straw Dogs (1971), where her character Amy was raped first by a former love and then by one of his coworkers, while in Mandingo (1975) she is the one who rapes a black slave, and in The House Where Evil Dwells (1982) her character engages in an adulterous affair while possessed by a ...
Back to top. L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
