Straw Dogs
Turkish title: Köpekler
“In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.”
1971 · 1 h 53 min
Directed by 
Sam Peckinpah
Sam PeckinpahCast
Dustin Hoffman 
Susan George 
Peter Vaughan
Credits
Written by: David Zelag Goodman
Plot
An American mathematician and his wife move to her village in Cornwall, where tension with local men escalates into a night of siege and violence.
Sinekatalog’s take
Sam Peckinpah's tense, brutal thriller turns a mild academic into a violent defender of his home. It is powerful and extremely controversial for its attitudes toward violence and sex, and it remains unsettling.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.4 / 10 (68,952 votes)
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