Where was Straw Dogs filmed?
1972 film, directed by Sam Peckinpah.
- St Buryan
The story is set in Cornwall, about 35 miles (57 km) from where it was filmed.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Cornwall
- Filmed in
- St Buryan
- Distance
- About 35 miles (57 km) between Cornwall and the nearest filming location.
About Straw Dogs
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- Released
- 1972
- Director
- Sam Peckinpah
- Cast
- Susan GeorgePeter VaughanT. P. McKennaDavid WarnerJim NortonColin WellandKen HutchisonPeter ArneSally Thomsett
- Genre
- Drama
- Based on
- The Siege of Trencher's Farm
The story
After securing a research grant to study stellar structures, American applied mathematician David Sumner moves with his wife Amy to a house near her home village of Wakely on the Cornish moorland.
They hire Scutt and Cawsey to re-roof its garage, and when impatient with lack of progress add Venner and his cousin Bobby to the workforce.
When David finds their cat hanging dead in their bedroom, Amy believes that Cawsey or Scutt is responsible.
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