Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut

Mar 8, 2003

0h 52m

★ 7.0

Overview

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Lucida Productions

Channel 4 Television

Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut Trailers

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Cast

Self - Host

Mark Kermode

Self - President ABC Pictures 1968-71

Martin Baum

Self - Stuntman

Peter Brayham

Self - Screenwriter of Straw Dogs

David Zelag Goodman

Self - Assistant to Sam Peckinpah & Companion

Katherine Haber

Self - Actor / Charlie Venner

Del Henney

Self - Extra / Local Resident

J.M. Hosking

Self - Actor / Norman Scutt

Ken Hutchison

Self - Ran Universal Pictures, Europe

Kenneth Hyman

Self - Editor

Tony Lawson

Self - Actor / Major John Scott

T. P. McKenna

Self - Producer of Straw Dogs

Daniel Melnick

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