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The Resource Straw dogs, a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah, (DVD)

Straw dogs, a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah, (DVD)

Label
Straw dogs
Title
Straw dogs
Statement of responsibility
a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah
Title variation
Sam Peckinpah's Straw dogs
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
A young mathematician, David Summer, and his English wife, Amy, move to a Cornish village, seeking the quiet life. But beneath the seemingly peaceful isolation of the village lies savagery and violence
Related
Member of
Cataloging source
CANA
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, John Coquillon ; editors, Roger Spottiswoode, Paul Davies, Tony Lawson ; music, Jerry Fielding
Date time place
Filmed on location in the west of England, Trencher's Farm, Pendeen, Cornwall, and at Twickenham Film Studios, Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Dewey number
791.4352
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
S25 2003
PerformerNote
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Ken Hutchison
Runtime
117
Series statement
Criterion collection
Series volume
182
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Marriage
  • Rape
  • Americans
  • Married people
  • Harassment
  • Sexual harassment of women
  • Americans
  • Harassment
  • Marriage
  • Married people
  • Rape
  • Rural conditions
  • Sexual harassment of women
  • England
  • England
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Label
Straw dogs, a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah, (DVD)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • From Cinerama Releasing Corp. Presented by ABC Pictures Corp
  • Based on the novel: The siege of Trencher's farm / Gordon M. Williams
  • DVD version of a 1971 motion picture, with added special features: Disc one: uncut version of movie, with optional audio commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince ; Disc two: Sam Peckinpah : man of iron / Lucida Productions for BBC Television ; produced by Chris Rodley; directed by Paul Joyce (1991 documentary of reflections by members of Peckinpah's family, his friends, and his collaborators; 83 min.); On location : Dustin Hoffman / directed by Iain Johnstone (26 min.); behind-the-scenes footage; videointerviews with actress Susan George and producer Daniel Melnick; Peckinpah responds: select correspondence to critics and viewers; theatrical trailer and TV spots
  • Accompanying booklet contains a reprinted interview with Sam Peckinpah from 1974, and an essay by poet Joshua Clover
Accompanying material
1 booklet of program notes ([17] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Disc 1. The movie. -- Disc 2. The supplements
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
2 videodiscs (117 min.)
Isbn
9781681433288
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515199315
Other physical details
sound, color with black and white sequences
Publisher number
  • CC1584D
  • CC27779DDVD
  • 182
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • ocm54481923
  • (OCoLC)54481923
System details
DVD format. Mono
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Straw dogs, a Daniel Melnick production ; screenplay by David Zelag Goodman and Sam Peckinpah ; produced by Daniel Melnick ; directed by Sam Peckinpah, (DVD)
Publication
Note
  • From Cinerama Releasing Corp. Presented by ABC Pictures Corp
  • Based on the novel: The siege of Trencher's farm / Gordon M. Williams
  • DVD version of a 1971 motion picture, with added special features: Disc one: uncut version of movie, with optional audio commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince ; Disc two: Sam Peckinpah : man of iron / Lucida Productions for BBC Television ; produced by Chris Rodley; directed by Paul Joyce (1991 documentary of reflections by members of Peckinpah's family, his friends, and his collaborators; 83 min.); On location : Dustin Hoffman / directed by Iain Johnstone (26 min.); behind-the-scenes footage; videointerviews with actress Susan George and producer Daniel Melnick; Peckinpah responds: select correspondence to critics and viewers; theatrical trailer and TV spots
  • Accompanying booklet contains a reprinted interview with Sam Peckinpah from 1974, and an essay by poet Joshua Clover
Accompanying material
1 booklet of program notes ([17] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Disc 1. The movie. -- Disc 2. The supplements
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
other
Extent
2 videodiscs (117 min.)
Isbn
9781681433288
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515199315
Other physical details
sound, color with black and white sequences
Publisher number
  • CC1584D
  • CC27779DDVD
  • 182
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • ocm54481923
  • (OCoLC)54481923
System details
DVD format. Mono
Video recording format
DVD

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