Straw Dogs feature 1971 Sam Peckinpah,Dustin Hoffman

Straw Dogs 1971 colour, sound feature

This is a Super 8mm colour sound feature film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman.  

Condition: This print does have some slight colour fade, but blues and greens are still eveident. There is some  scratching in parts, and a few splices too.  It comes on four reels. (one 600ft and three 400ft).

Note: I ran the first three parts of this film and it seems some of it may be in the wrong order. There is a splice or two per reel so if you know the film or have some time it may well need sorting out. It came from a deceased estate. Please take this into account when bidding.

From IMDB: Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.

So you think movies are violent today, huh? Think again. Sam Peckinpah's highly charged, extremely intense, brutally violent 1971 pic is an underrated masterpiece, in my opinion, that redefined cinema violence forever (as if "The Wild Bunch" wasn't enough). It is one of the best directed, most fluidly edited pictures that I've seen in recent years. Today's films don't even come close.

Allegedly banned in the U.K. to this very day, "Straw Dogs" came to me out of nowhere. I had heard good things about it, but never really caught onto it, until one day when I was at a video store browsing around for no apparent reason. I had absolutely no money and wasn't planning to buy anything when all of the sudden, I saw it . .

Please ask any questions you may have about this film.