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Straw Dogs

In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.

1971 · R · 1h 56m

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

7.1

TMDB audience score
1,138 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.

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Cast

  • Dustin Hoffman
    David Sumner

  • Susan George
    Amy

  • Peter Vaughan
    Tom Hedden

  • T. P. McKenna
    Maj. John Scott

  • Del Henney
    Charlie Venner

  • Jim Norton
    Chris Cawsey

  • Donald Webster
    Riddaway

  • Ken Hutchison
    Norman Scutt

  • Len Jones
    Bobby Hedden

  • Sally Thomsett
    Janice Hedden

  • Robert Keegan
    Harry Ware

  • Peter Arne
    John Niles

  • Cherina Schaer
    Louise Hood

  • Colin Welland
    Rev. Barney Hood

  • June Brown
    Mrs. Hebden (uncredited)

  • Jimmy Charters
    Man in Pub (uncredited)

  • Chloe Franks
    Emma Hebden (uncredited)

  • Michael Mundell
    Bertie Hedden (uncredited)