Directed by:
Sam PeckinpahCinematography:
John CoquillonComposer:
Jerry FieldingCast:
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, David Warner, Ken Hutchison, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett (more)Plots(1)
In this thriller, perhaps Sam Peckinpah’s most controversial film, David (Dustin Hoffman), a young American mathematician, moves with his English wife, Amy (Susan George), 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. Working outside the U.S. for the first time, the filmmaker airlifts the ruthlessness of the western frontier into Cornwall in Straw Dogs, pushing his characters to their breaking points as the men brutalize Amy and David discovers how far he’ll go to protect his home - culminating in a harrowing climax that lays out this cinematic mastermind’s eloquent and bloody vision of humanity. (Criterion)
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Straw Dogs
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: Intrada Records
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 41:46
Notes: Limited Edition.
1. | Prologue | Jerry Fielding | 01:11 |
2. | Amy's Noise | Jerry Fielding | 00:57 |
3. | Math Trick / Playing With The Help / Dinner Time | Jerry Fielding | 02:53 |
4. | Peeping Toms | Jerry Fielding | 02:30 |
5. | Don't Play Games / Window Display | Jerry Fielding | 04:36 |
6. | Dead Cat | Jerry Fielding | 01:29 |
7. | The Man Trap | Jerry Fielding | 04:12 |
8. | Did I Catch You Off Guard? | Jerry Fielding | 00:46 |
9. | The Hunting Party | Jerry Fielding | 01:49 |
10. | The Infamous Appassionata | Jerry Fielding | 08:21 |
11. | Suffering Amy | Jerry Fielding | 00:32 |
12. | Trencher's Farm | Jerry Fielding | 02:04 |
13. | The Wakely Arms / Janice Hedden's Death | Jerry Fielding | 03:44 |
14. | Death Of The Major / Shotgun / David vs. Charley | Jerry Fielding | 02:28 |
15. | I Got 'Em All / David vs. Riddaway | Jerry Fielding | 02:24 |
16. | Epilogue | Jerry Fielding | 01:50 |
Jerry Fielding: Film Music
Label: Bay Cities
Year: 1990
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 02:24:28
Notes: Limited edition.
1. | LAWMAN: Main Title | Jerry Fielding | 04:42 |
2. | Old Family Burial Ground | Jerry Fielding | 02:24 |
3. | Predators | Jerry Fielding | 04:09 |
4. | Branding The Cattle | Jerry Fielding | 01:36 |
5. | In Lauras Room | Jerry Fielding | 02:45 |
6. | Requiem In The Pasture | Jerry Fielding | 04:20 |
7. | Rapidly, Toward Resolution | Jerry Fielding | 03:28 |
8. | Finis | Jerry Fielding | 01:20 |
9. | THE MECHANIC: Anatomy Of The Assasin | Jerry Fielding | 09:53 |
10. | Two Soliloquies | Jerry Fielding | 04:31 |
11. | The Contract In Naples | Jerry Fielding | 04:56 |
12. | Approach, Assualt, Pursuit, Conquest | Jerry Fielding | 07:20 |
13. | THE BIG SLEEP: Suite | Jerry Fielding | 19:25 |
1. | STRAW DOGS: Prologue | Jerry Fielding | 01:45 |
2. | Dialogues | Jerry Fielding | 04:20 |
3. | Window Display | Jerry Fielding | 03:45 |
4. | The Hunting Party | Jerry Fielding | 02:31 |
5. | The Man Trap | Jerry Fielding | 04:14 |
6. | The Infamous Apassionata | Jerry Fielding | 08:33 |
7. | The Siege Begins | Jerry Fielding | 02:28 |
8. | Coda | Jerry Fielding | 02:24 |
9. | Epilogue | Jerry Fielding | 01:46 |
10. | CHATO'S LAND: Main Title | Jerry Fielding | 04:39 |
11. | Fruits Of The Incursion | Jerry Fielding | 03:30 |
12. | THE NIGHTCOMERS: Main Title | Jerry Fielding | 02:45 |
13. | Bedtime At Blye House | Jerry Fielding | 03:01 |
14. | Summer Rowing | Jerry Fielding | 03:19 |
15. | Pig Sty | Jerry Fielding | 01:36 |
16. | Pas De Deux | Jerry Fielding | 02:23 |
17. | The Smoking Frog | Jerry Fielding | 02:08 |
18. | The Childrens Hour | Jerry Fielding | 02:17 |
19. | Act Two Prelude Myles In The Air | Jerry Fielding | 02:24 |
20. | The Flower Bath | Jerry Fielding | 02:21 |
21. | The Big Swim | Jerry Fielding | 03:30 |
22. | Through The Looking Glass | Jerry Fielding | 02:41 |
23. | Tea In The Tree | Jerry Fielding | 01:53 |
24. | Recapitulation And Postlude | Jerry Fielding | 03:26 |
Straw Dogs / The Mechanic / Lawman / Chato's Land
Four Complete Scores Arranged into Suites from the Original Soundtrack Recordings by the Composer
Label: Citadel Records
Year: 1978
Country: USA
Format: LP
Length: 01:46:07
1. | SIDE A: LAWMAN: Main Title | Jerry Fielding | 04:42 |
2. | Old Family Burial Ground | Jerry Fielding | 02:24 |
3. | Predators | Jerry Fielding | 04:09 |
4. | Branding The Cattle | Jerry Fielding | 01:36 |
5. | In Laura's Room | Jerry Fielding | 02:45 |
6. | Requiem In The Pasture | Jerry Fielding | 04:20 |
7. | Rapidly, Toward Resolution | Jerry Fielding | 03:28 |
8. | Finis | Jerry Fielding | 01:20 |
9. | SIDE B: THE MECHANIC: Anatomy Of The Assassin | Jerry Fielding | 09:53 |
10. | Two Soliloquies | Jerry Fielding | 04:31 |
11. | The Contract In Naples | Jerry Fielding | 04:56 |
12. | Approach, Assault, Pursuit, Conquest | Jerry Fielding | 07:20 |
1. | SIDE A: STRAW DOGS: Prologue | Jerry Fielding | 01:45 |
2. | Dialogues | Jerry Fielding | 04:20 |
3. | Window Display | Jerry Fielding | 03:45 |
4. | The Hunting Party | Jerry Fielding | 02:31 |
5. | Entr'acte | Jerry Fielding | 02:02 |
6. | The Man Trap | Jerry Fielding | 04:14 |
7. | The Infamous Appassionata | Jerry Fielding | 08:33 |
8. | SIDE B: The Seige Begins | Jerry Fielding | 02:28 |
9. | Coda | Jerry Fielding | 02:24 |
10. | Epilogue | Jerry Fielding | 01:46 |
11. | CHATO'S LAND: Main Title | Jerry Fielding | 04:39 |
12. | Fruits Of The Incursion | Jerry Fielding | 03:30 |
13. | The Indian Convention | Jerry Fielding | 03:48 |
14. | Guerilla Maneuvers | Jerry Fielding | 04:04 |
15. | Wild Horse Roundup / Moment Of Mourning | Jerry Fielding | 02:14 |
16. | Attack In The Gorge | Jerry Fielding | 02:40 |