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Extras:DISC ONE
* The Film
Audio Commentary by Film Scholar (author of "Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies") Stephen Prince
Isolated Music and Effects Track (Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono)
DISC TWO
"Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron" documentary (82:26)
"On Location: Dustin Hoffman" featurette (25:46)
"Behind-The-Scenes" Footage (7:40)
Interviews:
- Producer Daniel Melnick (18:59)
- Actress Susan George (20:51)
Trailers
- Theatrical Trailer (1:43)
- TV #1 (1:00)
- TV #2 (0:31)
- TV #3 (0:12)
"Correspondence":
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Subtitles:English HoH
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 1.0
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Booklet:
- "Home Like No Place: Peckinpah's Straw Dogs" by Joshua Clover
- "The Cinema Of Sam Peckinpah: Interview with Peckinpah (1974)" by Andre Leroux
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Commentaries:Audio Commentary by Peckinpah Biographers Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
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Extras:Isolated Jerry Fielding Music Score (in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, featuring Additional Scores)
"On Location Documentary" featurette (7:43)
Theatrical Trailer (1:41)
3 TV Spots (1:38)
2 Radio Spots (1:24)
Interviews:
- Actress Susan George (24:18)
- Producer Dan Melnick (20:18)
- Peckinpah's Biographer Garner Simmons (22:26)
Stills Gallery:
- Original Film Posters
- Original Colour Publicity Stills
- Original B&W Publicity Stills
- On Location Stills
- Lobby Cards
"Background" (Screen Text Notes):
- Cast & Crew List
- Cast & Crew Filmographies
- "Straw Dogs And The Censors" by Craig Lapper
- 1970 The Peckinpah/Pinter Letters
- 1970 Sam and Dan Correspondence
- 1971 Why Call The Film "Straw Dogs"?
- 1971 The Dan Melnick/BBFC Letters
- 1971 The Times: Review & Critics Outrage
- 1972 The New York Times Articles
- 1972 BBFC Defence Against Local Authority Banning
- 1999 BBFC Home Video Statement
- 2000 BBFC Home Video Statement
- UNCUT Magazine Feature: December 2001
- Consider This A Bad Review
- The Deleted "Pub Scene" (some Photos and Text Intro)
- Film Facts & Trivia
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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Extras:DISC ONE
* The Film
Audio commentary by Peckinpah biographers Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
Audio commentary by close friend and PA of Peckinpah, Katy Haber
Isolated Jerry Fielding Score (in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, featuring additional score cues)
DISC TWO
"On Location Documentary" featurette (7:33)
"Before and After: Restoring a Classic" featurette (3:09)
Interviews:
- Actress Susan George (24:18)
- Producer Dan Melnick (20:18)
- Peckinpah's Biographer Garner Simmons (22:26)
Stills Gallery:
- On Location Stills (38 images - slideshow 3:04)
- Original Colour & B&W Publicity Stills (42 images, slideshow 3:24)
- Original Film Posters (31 images - slideshow 2:31)
- Lobby Cards (20 images - slideshow 1:37)
Theatrical Trailer (1:41)
3 TV Spots (0:57 + 0:30 + 0:10)
2 Radio Spots (0:58 + 0:27)
"Background" (Screen Text Notes):
- "Straw Dogs And The Censors" by Craig Lapper
- 1970 The Peckinpah/Pinter Letters
- 1970 Sam and Dan Correspondence
- 1971 Why Call The Film "Straw Dogs"?
- 1971 The Dan Melnick/BBFC Letters
- 1971 The Times: Review & Critic Outrage
- 1972 The New York Times Articles
- 1972 BBFC Defence Against Local Authority Banning
- 1999 BBFC Home Video Statement
- 2002 BBFC Home Video Statement
- UNCUT Magazine Feature: December 2001
- Consider This A Bad Review
- The Deleted "Pub Scene" (Text Intro and Some Photos)
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Subtitles:English HoH
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Except for being spread on 2 discs, differences to the previous Fremantle release are rather negligible to justify the "Ultimate" title; addition of English HoH subs, a short featurette and loss of cast & crew lists, filmography texts and dvd credits.
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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Subtitles:English, French, Spanish
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Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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Extras:DISC ONE
* The Film
Audio Commentary by Film Scholar (author of "Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies") Stephen Prince
"Mantrap: Straw Dogs The Final Cut" 2003 documentary (52:08)
Theatrical trailer (1:43)
TV Spot 1 (0:59)
TV Spot 2 (0:31)
TV Spot 3 (0:12)
DISC TWO
"Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron" 1993 documentary (94:16)
Conversation between critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker Roger Spottiswoode, one of the editors on the film (35:03)
Interview with film scholar Linda Williams about the film’s controversies (26:54)
Archival interviews:
- actor Susan George (20:57)
- producer Daniel Melnick (19:04)
- Peckinpah biographer Garner Simmons (9:57)
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Subtitles:English HoH
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 1.0
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Booklet:
- "Home Like No Place: Peckinpah's Straw Dogs" by Joshua Clover
- "The Cinema Of Sam Peckinpah: Interview with Peckinpah (1974)" by Andre Leroux
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):French Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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Extras:DISC ONE
*The Film
Audio commentary with Mike Siegel (in German)
DISC TWO
*The Film (Super 8 Version)
Featurettes:
- "Stories About Peckinpah (Dan Melnick)" (8:30)
- "David Warner Billing Story" (2:50)
- "Straw Dogs Cameraman Dan Melnick" (3:50)
- "Dustin Hoffman's Method (Dan Melnick)" (2:30)
- "Photos From The Set" (7:50)
- "Passion and the Poetry" (37:30)
Trailers:
- US Trailer (1:42)
- Super-8 Trailer (1:43)
- TV-Spot 1 (0:10)
- TV-Spot 2 (0:29)
- TV-Spot 3 (0:58)
- Radio Spot 1(0:29)
- Radio Spot 2 (1:03)
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono -
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Commentaries:Audio commentary with Mike Siegel (in German)
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.78:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono -
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Extras:"On Location" featurette (7:43)
Interviews
- Susan George (24:19)
- Dan Melnick (20:19)
- Garner Simmons (22:26)
Gallery
- Film Posters (3:52)
- Photo Gallery (10 stills)
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Subtitles:Dutch
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
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Subtitles:Japanese
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:NTSC
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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Case type:Jewel Case
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Extras:Dustin Hoffman & Sam Peckinpah biographies
Bonus Trailers:
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Subtitles:Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
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Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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Notes:Re-released in 2008 in steelbook packaging.
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Subtitles:Spanish (forced)
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Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
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Picture Format:Non-Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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Soundtrack(s):English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
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Case type:Keep Case
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UPC Number:8420565178006
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Subtitles:None
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Aspect Ratio:1.85:1
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Picture Format:Anamorphic
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TV System:PAL
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OVERALL: Draw
The US Criterion (re-release), the UK Fremantle 40th Anniversary, and German Special Uncut Edition releases for the differing exclusive extras.
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CUTS:
- R0 Original Release America- Criterion Collection - No cuts - Unrated Version (117:45 NTSC).
- R0 United Kingdom- Fremantle Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Uncut Version (112:45 PAL).
- R0 Ultimate 40th Anniversary Edition United Kingdom- Fremantle Home Entertainment - No cuts - Uncut Version (112:35 PAL).
- R1 America- Anchor Bay Entertainment - No Cuts - Unrated Version (117:19 NTSC).
- R1 America- MGM Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Unrated Version (117:20 NTSC).
- R1 Re-Release America- Criterion Collection - No cuts - Unrated Version (117:50 NTSC).
- R2 Belgium- Vidéodis - Yes - 2 minutes of cuts (110:56 PAL).
- R2 Special Uncut Edition Germany- Eurovideo - No Cuts - Uncut Version (113:04 PAL)
- R2 Uncut Germany- Eurovideo - No Cuts - Uncut Version (113:04 PAL)
- R2 Holland- Dutch FilmWorks - No cuts - Uncut Version (111:03 PAL).
- R2 Japan- Nippon Victor - Yes - 5 minutes of cuts.
- R2 Scandinavia- Scanbox - Yes - roughly 20 seconds from the 1st rape scene, 47 seconds from the 2nd rape scene and various other brief cuts (111:05 PAL).
- R2 Spain- Manga Films - No cuts - Uncut Version (112:19 PAL).
- R2 United Kingdom- Prism Direct/Leisure - No Cuts - Uncut Version (112:28 PAL).
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Comparison added by The Rewind Team on 15/03/02
Comparison last updated by Samuel_Scott on 14/01/18UPDATE LOG:
23/02/13: Updated R2 Scandinavia and added R0 UK 40th AE.
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14/01/18: Added Criterion re-release.
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