David Sumner is a quiet American mathematician who has moved with his wife Amy back to a remote Cornish farmhouse near the village where she grew up. The couple have relocated to rural England in an attempt to flee the violence of America but their placid life is brutally interrupted when the savagery and violence they sought to escape engulfs them and threatens to destroy their lives.
When released in 1971 this film caused outrage and controversy among critics and was for many years banned from home viewing. It still seems to be considered one of the most disturbing films ever made. Peckinpah's choice of location was the village of St Buryan in west Cornwall, used for the exterior shots. While a number of its inhabitants served as extras, no-one in the village was told anything about the story or its violent nature when the film unit were working there, so this came as an unpleasant shock for most on seeing the completed movie.
The farmhouse where the couple live, Trencher's Farm in the story, is situated near Morvah on the north coast of West Penwith. It is called Solomon's Island (or Isle) but is known also as Tor Noon, the name of a nearby natural feature. It was used for the exterior shots of the farmhouse and its surrounding countryside.
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