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White Dog

(1982)

July 7, 1982 1h 30m
66%
TMDB Score

Overview

Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties.Today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of all animals; the human being.

Samuel Fuller

Director

Top Billed Cast

KM

Kristy McNichol

Julie Sawyer

PW

Paul Winfield

Keys

BI

Burl Ives

Carruthers

JP

Jameson Parker

Roland Grale

CL

Christa Lang

Nurse

VW

Vernon Weddle

Vet

KLM

Karl Lewis Miller

Attacker

KE

Karrie Emerson

Sun Bather

HS

Helen Siff

Pound Operator

GG

Glen Garner

Pound Worker

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