Straw dogs / from Cinerama Releasing Corporation ; ABC Pictures Corp. presents ; a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Edition:
Special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet of program notes (24 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Container of (work): Straw dogs (Motion picture) Sam Peckinpah, man of iron. Mantrap: "Straw Dogs" -- the final cut.
Notes:
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Ken Hutchison, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett, Robert Keegan, Peter Arne, Cherina Schaer, Colin Welland. Based on the novel: The siege of Trencher's farm / Gordon M. Williams. New restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971. Special features: audio commentary from 2003 by Stephen Prince; Mantrap: "Straw dogs--the final cut, 2003 documentary; Sam Peckinpah: man of iron, 1993 documentary; New conversation between film critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode; New interview with film scholar Linda Williams; archival interviews with actor Susan George, producer Daniel Melnick, and Peckinpah biographer Garner Simmons; behind-the-scenes footage; TV spots and trailers; an essay by scholar and critic Joshua Clover.
Summary:
A young American mathematician moves with his English wife, Amy, to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world.
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