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VHS : Straw DogsIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney directed by: Sam Peckinpah  List Price: $14.99 Price: $14.77 You Save: $0.22 ( 1%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304983713 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6304983719 Label: Anchor Bay Entertainment Manufacturer: Anchor Bay Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Anchor Bay Entertainment Release Date: May 26, 1998 Running Time: 118 minutes Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: December 29, 1971 Sales Rank: 23239 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: One of Sam Peckinpah's most controversial efforts, this film came out at a critical moment in the early 1970s, released in the same month as both Dirty Harry and A Clockwork Orange, causing a furor over film violence. Based on a little-known British novel, the film casts Dustin Hoffman as a bookish American mathematician on sabbatical in rural England, in the town where his young bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself forced to defend his home against an assault by local toughs, and discovers a frighteningly feral and vicious side to himself. Though Straw Dogs has a reputation for graphic violence, it actually looks tame by contemporary standards. Instead, the violence is psychological, and the suspense and shocks are induced by the editing--you're more terrified by what you think you see than by what you are actually shown. --Marshall Fine Average Rating:
 Rating:  - I guess it hasn't aged wellTwo thoroughly unappealing characters are for some reason married to each other and take up residence in her UK home town which is seemingly populated by even less appealing, drooling, drinking thugs. The whole thing just runs on for way too long. How George and Hoffman ever ended up together is a mystery that perhaps only Lolita could understand. There is a fairly grpahic "sort-of rape" which is never brought up between the husband and wife after it happens. David Warner plays a version of Frankenstein ... Read More Rating: - MediocreIf there has ever been a more over-interpreted and stolidly misinterpreted film than director Sam Peckinpah's 1971 Straw Dogs, I've yet to encounter it. Yes, films like Citizen Kane and 2001: A Space Odyssey have had more ink spilled over them, but most of the ideas tossed about are on the money, and far less is read into them. Also, they have one big thing going for them that Straw Dogs does not. They are great films. While Straw Dogs is not nearly as good a film as its hagiographers claim- for Peckinpah had ... Read More Rating: - A Cave Man is a Brave Man!In this disturbing and violent film, Sam Peckinpah proposes that even the meekest wimp has the makings of a ruthless killer, and that a flirty woman, with the right man, could enjoy being raped. This Cave Man-level theory is acted out by a strong cast in rural Cornwall, England. The Dustin Hoffman mathematician can't cope with the primitive, rough men of his sexy wife's hometown. They are lazy, shiftless, conniving, alcoholic cat-killers, but Peckinpah deep down ... Read More Rating:  - What a bunch of English wankers.Straw Dogs is a good film, but one that causes me to look down on limeys. Usually, Englishmen are respectable enough. However, I find myself losing respect for them after watching this film. Perhaps Sam Peckinpah was somehow inaccurate in his portrayal of limeys as depraved animals. Even in British director Peter Greenaway's films, notably The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, the characters aren't usually all bad. In Straw Dogs, all the Englishmen are depraved. Take the Hedden family, ... Read More Rating: - Not an animal.Given the multiple reviews, I really only wish to comment on one aspect of the film, but one that is at it's heart. In the real world there really are people like the town bullies/thugs. Wherever found, their existence needs to be ended. In this film, after multiple points where this termination of existence should have occured, it finally does. D. goes from nothing to warrior. Not an animal in any way. A dangerous, thinking exterminator of evil. A good and honorable function. A necessary function. Browse for similar items by category:
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