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David Zelag Goodman is known for:

  • Straw Dogs
    L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
  • Straw Dogs
    David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.
  • Logan's Run
    In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Zelag Goodman is a film and television writer. His most prolific period was from the 1960s to the early 1980s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Lovers and Other Strangers, though he did not win. He helped Sam Peckinpah write the screenplay for 1971's controversial Straw Dogs. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Zelag Goodman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia