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In which Peckinpah film does a school teacher become a vigilante?

  • Straw Dogs

  • Cross of Iron

  • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

  • The Wild Bunch

Answer

"Straw Dogs", a 1971 psychological thriller directed by Sam Peckinpah, centers around a mild-mannered American mathematician, David Sumner, who relocates to the English countryside with his wife Amy. As tensions escalate with the locals, Sumner's repressed violent instincts are unleashed when he defends his home against a group of menacing locals, leading to increasingly brutal confrontations.
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