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Straw Dogs | 1972 | Style D | US One Sheet

27Sep2017

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Straw Dogs | 1972 | Style D | US One Sheet

Straw Dogs is a 1972 film directed by Sam Peckinpah and was produced by Daniel Melnick. Sam Peckinpah co-wrote the screenplay with David Zelag Goodman and is based on Gordon M. Williams's 1969 novel, The Siege of Trencher's Farm. Straw Dogs stars Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton, Donald Webster, Ken Hutchison, Len Jones and Sally Thomsett. The storyline follows American mathematician David Sumner comes to live in Britain with his glamorous young wife, Amy. They move to her small home village in a remote part of Cornwall. They are taken advantage of by the locals who have been hired to complete some construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house. Principle photogr...

4Aug2017

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Convoy | 1978 | Final | UK One Sheet

Convoy is a 1978 film directed by Sam Peckinpah. It produced by Robert M. Sherman with Bill Norton known as B. W. L. Norton writing the screenplay. Convoy stars Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair, Franklyn Ajaye, Brian Davies, Seymour Cassel, Cassie Yates and Walter Kelley. The storyline follows three truckers, Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald, Bobby ‘Pig Pen’ and Spider Mike as they set off across the country. Harassed by a local Sheriff, Lyle 'Cottonmouth' Wallace, who uses his powers to extort money and has a particular dislike for truckers. Rubber Duck has a long-standing feud with the Sheriff which boils over when the truckers refuse to give into his extortion attempts. This results in a cross-state, even interstate chase, and grows in magnitud...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | R2013 | Dutch One Sheet

21Jun2017

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | R2013 | Dutch One Sheet

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 film directed by Don Siegel and was produced by Walter Wanger. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the screenplay from Jack Finney's science fiction novel The Body Snatchers released in 1954. The film stars Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan and Carolyn Jones. Invasion of the Body Snatchers was filmed in Superscope which used a larger image frame by using the negative space usually reserved for the optical analogue soundtrack and was partially shot in the film noir style. It was released in 1956 by Allied Artists Pictures on a double bill with the British science fiction film The Atomic Man. The storyline is based on an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have falle...