1982 | United States | Fiction

White Dog

  • English English 90 mins
  • Director | Samuel Fuller
  • Writer | Samuel Fuller, Curtis Hanson
  • Producer | Jon Davison

STATUS: Released

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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 animals: the human being.

Racism Dog Allegory Training Morality
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The Criterion Collection
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