---
title: 'Straw Dogs (1971)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Sam Peckinpah'
released: '1971-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 118
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
  - 'Australia'
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/straw-dogs-1971'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Straw Dogs (1971)

1971 · R · 118 min · Drama · United States, Australia, United Kingdom


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Sam Peckinpah](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-peckinpah)
- **Screenplay:** [Sam Peckinpah](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-peckinpah), [David Zelag Goodman](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-zelag-goodman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jerry Fielding](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-fielding)
- **Producer:** [Daniel Melnick](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-melnick)
- **Director of Photography:** [John Coquillon](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-coquillon)
- **Editor:** [Tony Lawson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-lawson), [Paul Davies](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-davies)

## Cast

- [Ken Hutchison](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-hutchison)
- [T. P. McKenna](https://cinepixo.com/people/t-p-mckenna)
- [Susan George](https://cinepixo.com/people/susan-george)
- [Peter Vaughan](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-vaughan)
- [Sally Thomsett](https://cinepixo.com/people/sally-thomsett)
- [Dustin Hoffman](https://cinepixo.com/people/dustin-hoffman)
- [David Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-warner)
- [Peter Arne](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-arne)
- [Jim Norton](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-norton)
- [Colin Welland](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-welland)

## Criticism on CinePixo

No reviews published yet.

Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/straw-dogs-1971
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1163628); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.