Straw Dogs

“In the Face of Every Coward Burns a Straw Dog.”

David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman), a quiet American mathematician, wants peace to work, so he moves with his English wife Amy (Susan George) to the Cornish village where she grew up. The local men, Amy's old flame Charlie (Del Henney) among them, hire on to fix the roof and start to needle him. Sam Peckinpah's story is about how thin the line is between a civilized man and the instinct to defend what is his.