| Description |
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical monaural rda |
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video file Blu-Ray region A rda |
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Motion picture. |
| System Details |
Blu-ray, wide screen; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Cast |
Susan George, Dustin Hoffman. |
| Note |
New restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1971. |
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Special features: audio commentary; Mantrap: "Straw dogs--the final cut, 2003 documentary; Sam Peckinpah: man of iron, 1993 documentary; New conversation between film critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode; New interview with film scholar Linda Williams; archival interviews with actor Susan George, producer Daniel Melnick, and Peckinpah biographer Garner Simmons; behind-the-scenes footage; TV spots and trailers; an essay by scholar and critic Joshua Clover. |
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MPAA Rating: R |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; for strong brutal violence including a sexual attack, menace, some sexual content, and pervasive language. |
| Summary |
A young American mathematician moves with his English wife, Amy, to the village where she grew up. Their sense of safety unravels as the local men David has hired to repair their house prove more interested in leering at Amy and intimidating David, beginning an agonizing initiation into the iron laws of violent masculinity that govern Peckinpah's world. |
| Subject |
Americans -- England -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Married people -- England -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Harassment -- England -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Sexual harassment of women -- England -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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England -- Social life and customs -- 1945- -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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England -- Rural conditions -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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England -- Videodiscs. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1945 -- Videodiscs. |
| Genre |
Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Drama.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Blu-ray discs.
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| Added Author |
Peckinpah, Sam, 1925-1984, film director.
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George, Susan, 1950- actor.
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Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781681433271 |
| Standard No. |
715515199216 |
| Music No. |
CC2778BD The Criterion Collection |
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