White Dog
“When man’s best friend becomes his fiercest enemy…”
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.
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Cast
33 people
Kristy McNichol
Julie Sawyer
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Samuel Fuller Director · Curtis Hanson Screenplay Romain Gary Story
Budget $8M · United States release August 13, 1982 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$8,000,000
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
France · June 1, 1982
Premiere · Paris (Cinémathèque Française)
United States · August 13, 1982
Limited theatrical
Finland
May 26, 1985 · Theatrical
France
July 7, 1982 · Theatrical
September 18, 2024 · Physical · DVD & Blu-Ray
Germany
July 26, 1985 · Physical · video premiere (CIC Video)
Japan
November 17, 1990 · Theatrical
Netherlands
March 31, 2014 · Physical · DVD, Blu ray
Sweden
May 11, 1984 · Theatrical
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