# Les Chiens de paille (1971)

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**Original title**: *Straw Dogs*
**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama, Crime
**Directed by**: Sam Peckinpah
**Written by**: Sam Peckinpah, David Zelag Goodman
**Starring**: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton

> *In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Cornwall countryside, autumn, a broken fence. A American academic and his English wife face local hostility, old flames, and escalating threats. Peckinpah frames masculinity as a brittle construct.

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