Straw Dogs

1971

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna, Del Henney

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate.