STRAW DOGS opens. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Written by David Zelag Goodman and Peckinpah. Based on the novel The Siege Of Trencher's Farm by Gordon M. Williams. American math professor and his seductive wife's relocation to remote Cornish village precipitates violent reckoning with group of testosterone-fueled villagers. Controversial, psychological thriller with Dustin Hoffman & Susan George.