Straw Dogs (1971 film) to enjoy the act of violation". The BBFC wrote that: "Home Alone" production designer John Muto identified that film as a "kids version of "Straw Dogs"". Director Jacques Audiard cited "Straw Dogs" as the basis for his 2015 film "Dheepan". 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
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket 1969 novel "A Void", notable for not containing a single letter "e", contains an e-less rewriting of Poe's "The Raven" that is attributed to Arthur Gordon Pym in order to avoid using the two "e"s found in Poe's name. On May 5, 1974, author and journalist Arthur Koestler published a letter from reader Nigel Parker in "The Sunday Times" of a striking coincidence between a scene in Poe's novel and an actual event that happened decades later: In 1884, the yacht "Mignonette" sank, with four men cast adrift. After weeks without food, they decided that one of them should be