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Straw Dogs

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Directed by Rod Lurie

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control. From TMDB

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Straw Dogs is a 2011 drama thriller film, directed by Rod Lurie, starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth and Alexander Skarsgård.

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  • Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.comBluesky · May 6, 2025

    Watership Down, Aftersun, The Devil, Straw Dogs, 10 Rillington Place, Sorcerer, Castration Movie Anthology I: Traps, Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, Naked, Bleak Moments … first wave on sale tomorrow! princecharlescinema.com/seasons-even... @amcinematheque.bsky.social

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  • Clinton of the Damned 🎃👻 @puritythrufire.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2026

    Picking a (not so) random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #264 "Straw Dogs" (Sam Peckinpah/1971) Ignore the fact the wrap is still on this release. I have seen this movie many times and it's a fucking belter! Check it out.

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  • Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zoneBluesky · May 18, 2025

    Okay, so (1) Yes, STRAW DOGS is at least quasi-fascist, (2) the "FIRST" American film that is a fascist work of art?!?!?!?!

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  • 🎃HunkyKarras🎃/♑🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    #NowWatching #FilmSky 'Straw Dogs'. 1971 (Sam Peckinpah) The 1970s produced numerous works of film controversy - Sam Peckinpah's second serious look at violence would prove to cause even more outrage than The Wild Bunch. You can read my writing below: ⬇️ letterboxd.com/hunkykubrick...

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    Finally started the MAD MAX rewatch and love what a strange movie the first is. It's like this fun house mirror version of STRAW DOGS set in a dystopian future bookended by absolutely sicko vehicle chases.

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  • Mitchell Beaupre @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    For @letterboxd.social, I had the privilege of speaking with one of our greatest filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, about my favorite film of the year, Cloud. We discussed him being influenced by Straw Dogs, his desire to return to his old mode of filmmaking, whether he’s seen Here, and more. boxd.it/2Eg

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  • Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.comBluesky · Feb 5, 2024

    A total joy to chat to @jasondashbailey.bsky.social + Mike Hull on the legendary A Very Good Year podcast about 1971 - my favourite year for film, hands down. Elaine May's A NEW LEAF, Alan Arkin's LITTLE MURDERS, Sam Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS + more. Listen in here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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  • Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.comBluesky · Jun 20, 2025

    SHOWING TODAY 🎞️ - GET CARTER - BREAKING THE WAVES - KES - BLEAK WEEK MYSTERY MOVIE - BLEAK MOMENTS w/ Mike Leigh Q&A - STRAW DOGS - JENNIFER'S BODY - APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT princecharlescinema.com

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    On this day (26th May) in 1992, the Scala Cinema was showing Straw Dogs (1971) and Django (1966) as a double bill.

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  • hmmadness.bsky.social @hmmadness.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    #Lastfourwatched #Letterboxd #Filmsky #Letterboxdfriday #Moviesky MacGruber was a movie I might have loved 20 years ago. Straw Dogs is a fine is unnecessary remake The Woman in Black is beautiful but nothing new or unique. Fantastic Four 2005 rewatch was fun.

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  • ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.comBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    one of my moots here recommended The Old Gun/le Vieux Fuseuil last week, but can't recall who, sorry! cracking film, Straw Dogs meets Die Hard, especially timely for its dealing with nazis. with the beautiful Romy Schneider and the fabulous Philippe Noiret, and on UK Prime

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  • Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2025

    Extraordinary to think I am watching a film made 112 years ago. And that at the halfway point between then and now, 56 years ago, I would have been watching DIRTY HARRY, GIÙ LA TESTA, DUEL, STRAW DOGS, McCABE & MRS MILLER, THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES, THE DEVILS, MACBETH & THE MUSIC LOVERS.

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  • 🔞🏳️‍⚧️SLEEPYHEAD💤FRITZY🏳️‍⚧️🔞 @sleepyhead-fritzy.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 2, 2025

    Why is it when I decide to watch a movie every once in a while, I pick something upsetting? Tonight's movie is Straw Dogs (1971) and fuck, I'm so glad I got rid of my alcohol because I'm not even an hour into this movie and I had the rare urge to drink. Warm nonalcoholic cider it is! XD

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    December 29, 1971: Sam Peckinpah’s film Straw Dogs starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George is released in the USA.

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  • Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.comBluesky · Apr 16, 2025

    Good heavens. The following all were released in 1971 • STRAW DOGS • A CLOCKWORK ORANGE • THE DEVILS Now *that* is a grim little film festival.

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  • David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2025

    Stewart Lee on westerns and politics. Doesn't get better. I always find Pat Garrett a tough film to watch (those poor chickens) but I should probably do so again. I already have a couple of Peckinpah's lined up. I also want to rewatch 'Straw Dogs'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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  • Peter Albrechtsen @lydrummet.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2025

    Happy 100th birthday to director Sam Peckinpah. His bold use of sound has been very inspiring to me. Straw Dogs made brilliant use of sonic abstractions. The Wild Bunch changed the way gunshots sounded in movies. And The Getaway has one of the best audio intros of any movie ever. A sonic powerhouse.

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  • Mark H @blackhole.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 26, 2026

    Basil Kirchin’s extremely rare soundtrack for The Shuttered Room (1967) has appeared on YouTube! A horror film that predates Straw Dogs, but has barely been given any credit for its eerie qualities. Still not on blu-ray. FINALLY I get to hear this soundtrack after decades of longing.

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  • Kane @demikane.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2025

    My mood is good right now so I will watch a cheerful movie.......now watching Straw Dogs

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  • Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    The movie tie-in edition of Straw Dogs

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  • James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2025

    First watch: Le vieux fusil (1975, dir. Robert Enrico). Philippe Noiret & Romy Schneider star in this controversial but popular war drama-turned-exploitation movie. I'm glad I went in blind on this one because it is best described as Straw Dogs + Inglorious Basterds + And then there were None! 1/2

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    On this day (6th July) in 1991, the Scala Cinema was showing Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) and Straw Dogs (1971) as a Sam Peckinpah double bill.

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  • Elliott @skipperbananaco.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Okay. I'm not crazy. They did have a shotgun racking sound effect for a double barrel. Lmao. #wrongturn a solid 3/5. Not a masterpiece, but it does what it needs to and the ending rips. It captures a bit of the energy the end of Straw Dogs and I love that shit in a movie. Cheers #frightclub

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    On this night (11th February) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing Straw Dogs, Fingers, The Exterminator and Mean Streets as an all-nighter.

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  • John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    They made this movie twice. It's called Straw Dogs.

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  • Bloody Sam: A Peckinpah Fan Podcast @bloodysam.bsky.socialBluesky · May 24, 2026

    This episode is a bit longer than normal and no wonder as this time around we are tackling Peckinpah's most controversial work "Straw Dogs". Luckily we brought in Peckinpah expert @liamhdempsey.bsky.social (Spocklight) to tackle this highly divsive film. open.spotify.com/episode/5y1q...

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  • Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2025

    I've never got over him saying in the EPK for Hot Fuzz that he hadn't based in on Straw Dogs like YOU thought, he'd based it on the original novel the film was based on. The title of which he then got clunkingly wrong.

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  • Bill-a Lugosi's Dead @neokefka99.bsky.socialBluesky · May 25, 2024

    And started the FURIOSA pre-game MAD MAX marathon with the original. Such a fascinating movie. Has more in common thematically with stuff like STRAW DOGS or even with Wes Craven's LAST HOUSE / HILLS HAVE EYES -- just with sicko vehicle stunts! -- than the spaghetti western meets Heavy Metal sequels.

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  • Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2024

    Straw Dogs (1971, Dir. Sam Peckinpah) 📽️ Cinematography by John Coquillon. — A thought-provoking film that explores violence and the concept of home, raising questions about belonging, security, and protecting what we consider home. #70sFilm

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  • Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    "The end of a picture is always an end of a life." 🎬 #SamPeckinpah, American film director ("The Wild Bunch", "Straw Dogs"), was #BOTD 21 February 1925. #Film #Filmmaking

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  • John @johnrt.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2026

    Sounds like The Wicker Man! I think that’s why that film is so effective. You can draw a line from that to 28 Years Later, including Straw Dogs on the way. Communities that don’t include you and their deep-rooted weird ways

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  • The Gil-Monster @thegilmonster.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2026

    I may not be the audience for this film. (Yes, Bear's the villain; DUH. I saw STRAW DOGS, thanks.) But I'm fuzzy on what love is in this film. I *was* that 20-odd sad sack crushing from afar and never once thought "Man, she's so hot. I wanna serve her her dead cat for lunch." It runs long. 2/?

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  • Julia Marchese @juliacmarchese.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film STRAW DOGS forces you to confront your own feelings about violence - is this film exploitation or examination? You decide! So many incredible performances in this movie. Please tell me your memories of this film! #strawdogs #vhs #movie youtube.com/shorts/3arh2...

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  • Jack @jacklikesfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2024

    NW: Only seen three of Sam Peckinpah's films so far (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs and Cross of Iron). Thought all three were very good, so looking forward to this.

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  • Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    Just looking for a fun, family friendly film. I can't make the "take them to see Straw Dogs" mistake again.

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  • Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 25, 2025

    Last day of being home sick, headed back to work tomorrow. I've watched a lot of movies last couple of days. Today, starting off with one I haven't watched in fifteen plus years, but watched a zillion times in the 90s and early 2000s. Probably my fav Dustin Hoffman film, this one or STRAW DOGS.

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  • Justice For Victims @reinsoffire.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2025

    James Woods is an old man who is sexually interested in children. “James Woods sexually harassed my 17 year old on the set of the film Straw Dogs. Woods was playing her father"

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  • 🇨🇦 @beauwest.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    Good one Joanne, reminds me that PP resembles the antagonist in the movie Straw Dogs .

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  • BaseballObscura @justmckinney.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    Wonderful film, the director Ted Kotcheff has super weird filmography. Wake in Fright...basically the Australian Straw Dogs, First Blood...Rambo debut and Weekend at Bernie's.

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  • Tom Cody @realtomcody.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    THE VISITORS (1972) -dir Elia Kazan Nothing makes me giddy like discovering a film from my favorite era that has somehow escaped me all these years. An unknown, pre-shitty James Woods and an impossibly young Steve Railsback face off in a domestic, Vietnam-era companion to STRAW DOGS. Movies rule.

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  • Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2024

    “Quick, put something else on!” “How about this?” “Is it a kid’s film?” “Sounds like it, it’s called ‘Straw Dogs’” “OK that should do”

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  • Goldie and Komos @komos-and-goldie.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 21, 2026

    Distilled decadence on film -- and to think this, A Clockwork Orange *and* Straw Dogs were all in the same shocking year!

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  • Emoria - Aftertaste is a Horror Novel @emoria.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 26, 2026

    Again, this is Straw Dogs (Not recommending this movie, but it is a movie about a dude defending his house from intruders with fatal traps. It has a lot of questionable shit in it besides that but it's well made)

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  • Moondoggie (Rick) @moondogrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2026

    Alonso says it's a "Bugs Bunny movie." Stuff blowing up in Daffy Duck's face. 😂 He also said it was like if you crossed The Ref with Straw Dogs. They made War of the Roses comparisons (saying it's better than The Roses). Seems like they had some fun with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORmH...

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  • The Gil-Monster @thegilmonster.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    Why would I ever deign to eat Man Cereal or brew that hideous right-wing ground coffee, when I can just stand in the aura of this Italian movie poster for STRAW DOGS and absorb through my skin its Peckinpahrticles?

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  • Semiotic Stochastic, purveyor of sick beats @mitdasein.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Insert a movie into another movie: Hotel for Straw Dogs

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  • Steven Caumo @stevencwriter.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2025

    I love low budget horror/exploitation movies and I still hate STRAW DOGS boxd.it/b7rqXj

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  • Matteo Persivale @mpersivale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2025

    7 year old me was horrified. We hadn’t been yet desensitized by huge body counts. It’s one of the things I try to tell kids now— stuff like Straw Dogs and Wild Bunch were considered beyond the pale. Now every action film is a video game.

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  • Chris O’Neill @chrisoneill99.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    The second UK video release of STRAW DOGS (1971), a film by Sam Peckinpah. This edition was released by The Video Collection, one of the first sell-through budget labels in Britain.

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  • Halloweenennius @nennius.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 16, 2025

    #nowwatching M.F.A. (2017). I've seen a few people on here mention this, and it sounds like a interesting revenge film. Pretty harrowing so far - think I Spit On Your Grave or Straw Dogs. Curious to see how they blend in the themes of art, expression, and emotion. #horrorsky

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  • José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2025

    Watched Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs. That movie was rough. Incredibly disturbing and nihlistic. The more movies I watch from 1971, the more I think that era is similar to our own.

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  • Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Having resolved THAT confusion, he could have gone on to conflate his 2003 book Straw Dogs with the 1971 Sam Pekinpah film Straw Dogs

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  • optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2024

    The cinematic poet of onscreen carnage. I go... Fave: Straw Dogs has an intensity and an unsettling vibe that's unshakable, but I can't call that a fave. The Wild Bunch, though? GAH. Ferociously badass, a film to soak up like bread in broth. Least fave: The Ballad of Cable Hogue was *alright.*

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  • Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2024

    An actual typical 70s night viewing 6.00 Nationwide Strikes Rundown 6.30 The Sex Pistols, Swearing 6.45 Top Of The Pops 8.00 Morcambe & Wise Seaside Special 9.00 Film: Straw Dogs 11.25 Closedown This schedule was used 18 times in 1978.

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  • Drew Morton @damorton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2023

    ANGST might be the most unsettling film I’ve seen next to HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER, IRREVERSIBLE, FUNNY GAMES, and STRAW DOGS. Holy shit. So unpleasant, yet compelling and well made.

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  • Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    For Movie Week, Graham & Lauren will be dancing the Foxtrot to the theme from Straw Dogs

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  • AngelsArcanum/NabariNoBro @angelsarcanum.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2026

    213. Straw Dogs (1971 film): if there was a whiff of edge to The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs is a “misunderstood” 13 year old writing in his diary edgy. Lanthimos-levels of misanthropic worldview fabrication & contrivance. Bogus, but a few subtle notes about masculine rituals of violence are neat. 4/10

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  • David Lloyd @davebackwell.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    Many years ago my local paper carried a letter from an outraged dog lover who had discovered that Straw Dogs was not the film she was expecting

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  • René Walter @rawx.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Favorite film for each year of the '70s: 70 - Colossus: The Forbin Project 71 - Straw Dogs 72 - Deliverance 73 - Westworld 74 - Phase IV 75 - Dog Day Afternoon 76 - Carrie 77 - Black Sunday 78 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers 79 - Mad Max

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  • Frank Pozen Toronto, Canada @frankp316.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2026

    @willmckinley.bsky.social Music/movie birthday. Jerry Fielding 1922-1980. Composer was nominated for three Oscars including the films The Wild Bunch (1969), Straw Dogs (1971).

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