Story Line
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.
“In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.”
Top Cast
Dustin Hoffman
David Sumner
Susan George
Amy
Peter Vaughan
Tom Hedden
T. P. McKenna
Maj. John Scott
Del Henney
Charlie Venner
Jim Norton
Chris Cawsey
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Rating
7.2/ 10
Release Date
1971-11-25
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
ThrillerDramaCrime
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
10/10
•2/16/2020This is where I live. This is me. I will not allow violence against this house.
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Wuchak
7/10
•10/28/2024**_How far can a civilized man be pushed?_**
A well-to-do couple from America (Dustin Hoffman and Susan George) move back to the wife's hometown near Land’s End in western Cornwall, England, and settle into the vacant homestead. They enlist some r...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•3/22/2026Time hasn’t been so kind to this tautly directed but actually pretty thin story. Academic “David” (Dustin Hoffman) has moved with his more local wife “Amy” (Susan George) to live in Cornwall where he can continue to work on his astrophysics and where...