Straw Dogs (1971 film) days over schedule and $3 million over budget. Left with a limited number of directing jobs, Peckinpah was forced to travel to England to direct "Straw Dogs". Produced by Daniel Melnick, who had previously worked with Peckinpah on his 1966 television film "Noon Wine", the screenplay began from Gordon Williams' novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm", with Peckinpah saying "David Goodman and I sat down and tried to make something of validity out of this rotten book. We did. The only thing we kept was the siege itself". "Straw Dogs" drew inspiration from Robert Ardrey's books "African Genesis" and "The
The Decameron (1971 film) The Decameron (1971 film) The Decameron () is a 1971 film by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the novel "Il Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio. It is the first movie of Pasolini's "Trilogy of life", the others being "The Canterbury Tales" and "Arabian Nights". The tales contain abundant nudity, sex, slapstick and scatological humor. The film was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize. The film, shot in Neapolitan dialect at the behest of the director, offers a variety of episodes from the stories most characteristic of the work