Director: Sam Peckinpah

Writers: David Zelag Goodman; Sam Peckinpah

From novel: The Siege of Trencher's Farm by Gordon M. Williams

Keywords: Thriller, Rape

Mild-mannered American mathematician David Sumner and his wife Amy move to a remote English village, where they are never accepted by the townsfolk. While David is on a quail hunt, Amy is brutally raped by men hired to build his garage. Sam Peckinpah's first non-Western, released with an "X" rating in the US and banned in Britain. Received an Oscar nomination for Best Dramatic Score.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Susan George	Actor	26-Jul-1950		Straw Dogs
Dustin Hoffman	Actor	8-Aug-1937		The Graduate
Peter Vaughan	Actor	4-Apr-1923	6-Dec-2016	The Remains of the Day

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