Straw Dogs DVD 1971 Sam Peckinpah Cult Classic Dustin Hoffman & Susan George

Susan George, Dustin Hoffman Released in 1971, Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" caused outrage and controversy among the critics of the time. With his uncompromising style,Peckinpah had unleashed an intensely powerful and menacing portrayal of violence onto the big screen, the fallout of which has lasted over 30 years. Banned from home viewing under the 1984 video recordings Act, only now can his disturbing masterpiece be seen in it's 'uncut' form. Finally, the most notorious movie in British film history is available to the public and it's time for the public to make its own mind up. David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) is a quiet American mathematician who has moved with his wife Amy (Susan George) back to a remote Cornish farmhouse near the village where she grew up. The couple have relocated to rural England in an attempt to flee the violence of America but their placid life is brutally interrupted when the savagery and violence they sought to escape engulfs them and threatens to destroy their lives.