Straw Dogs
1971
A young American academic settles with his wife in a remote Cornish village, but the insular local community turns hostile and the situation escalates into shocking violence when he refuses to back down. Sam Peckinpah's controversial and intense thriller, based on Gordon Williams' novel, stars Dustin Hoffman and Susan George.
Director
- Sam Peckinpah
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman
- Susan George
- Peter Vaughan
- T.P. McKenna
- Peter Arne
- David Warner
- Ken Hutchison
- Colin Welland
- Jim Norton
Filming Locations
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Lamorna Cove
The coastal scenery around Lamorna Cove provided rural Cornish landscape backdrops for the film's outdoor scenes in the Penwith countryside.
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St. Buryan
The village of St Buryan stood in for the fictional Cornish village of Wakely, providing the church, village square and pub locations central to the film's story of David and Amy Sumner.