Straw Dogs

Name: Straw Dogs
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: December 22, 1971
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Del Henney, Donald Webster, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Norton, Ken Hutchison

1971

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Cinerama Releasing Corporation | Release Date: December 22, 1971 | R

Starring: Del Henney, Donald Webster, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Norton, Ken Hutchison, Len Jones, Peter Vaughan, Sally Thomsett, Susan George, T.P. McKenna

Summary: A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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Nick Schager

Sitting through Peckinpah’s controversial classic is not unlike watching a lit fuse make its slow, inexorable way toward its combustible destination—the taut build-up is as shocking and vicious as its fiery conclusion is inevitable. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Straw Dogs is one of Sam Peckinpah's finest films, a relentless study in violence and machismo that is shocking, not only for its explicit gore, but for the degree to which it manipulates "civilized" audiences. Even the most passive viewer may find himself silently cheering on the carnage at the film's climax--an act that, in retrospect, gives much cause for discomfort. Read full review

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Chuck Bowen

One of the most ambiguous, neurotic, and disturbing of all American films. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Straw Dogs has the heat of personal commitment and the authority of deep (if bitter) contemplation. It is also moviemaking of a very high order. Read full review

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Taking elements of both the Western and the British horror film, Peckinpah's masterstroke was to shoot Straw Dogs absolutely straight, without the reassuring signposts of either type of film. Read full review

Pauline Kael

Despite Peckinpah’s artistry, there’s something basically grim and crude in Straw Dogs. It’s no news that men are capable of violence, but while most of us want to find ways to control that violence, Sam Peckinpah wants us to know that that’s all hypocrisy. Read full review

Vincent Canby

It is an intelligent movie, but interesting only in the context of his other works. Read full review

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