Straw Dogs (1971)
With Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna, David Warner, Jim Norton, Colin Welland, Ken Hutchison
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm. The film's title is derived from a discussion in the Tao Te Ching that likens people to the ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog, being of ceremonial worth, but afterwards discarded with indifference.
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