Straw Dogs (1971 film) Straw Dogs (1971 film) Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and David Zelag Goodman, is lightly based upon Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, "The Siege of Trencher's Farm". The film's title derives from a discussion in the "Tao Te Ching" that likens people to the ancient Chinese ceremonial straw dog, being of ceremonial worth, but afterwards discarded with indifference. The film is noted for its violent concluding sequences and a complicated rape scene. Released theatrically in the same year as "A Clockwork Orange",
The Last Valley (1971 film) Clavell would make the film for ABC Pictures. The head of ABC was Martin Baum who was Clavell's agent and who had helped put together "To Sir, with Love". Clavell was going to make the film after "The Great Siege", a story of the Siege of Malta, which he was going to do after "Where's Jack?" (1967). He ended up not making "Great Siege". After he made "The Last Siege" he said he would write another book "to see if I've still got it." (This would become "Shogun".) Omar Sharif was the first star to sign. By June 1969 Michael