United States
1982
90 minutes
Color
1.78:1
English
455
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.
| Julie Sawyer | Kristy McNichol |
| Keys | Paul Winfield |
| Carruthers | Burl Ives |
| Roland Gray | Jameson Parker |
| Molly | Lynne Moody |
| Director | Marshall Thompson |
| Nurse | Christa Lang |
| Charlie Felton | Samuel Fuller |
| Dogs | Hans |
| Folsom | |
| Son | |
| Buster | |
| Duke |
| Director | Samuel Fuller |
| Producer | Jon Davison |
| Screenplay | Samuel Fuller and Curtis Hanson |
| Based upon the story by | Romain Gary |
| Executive producers | Edgar J. Scherick and Nick Vanoff |
| Cinematography | Bruce Surtees |
| Production Design | Brian Eatwell |
| Editing | Bernard Gribble |
| Music | Ennio Morricone |
| Dogs trained by | Animal Action: Karl Lewis Miller |
The eighty-one-year-old Ennio Morricone has been composing hypnotic music for film since the early 1960s, for projects ranging from spaghetti westerns (his whistling, woodwindy five-note theme for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of the most recognizable in movie history) to Italian...
“Why Sam Fuller?” a new essay by Tag Gallagher, in the latest issue of Senses of Cinema, asks. Aficionados might wonder, why even ask? But perhaps they forget that the two-fisted termite art of this...
The National Society of Film Critics announced its 2008 awards this week, and Criterion won a special honor for the DVD release of White Dog. The esteemed organization, founded in 1966 and made up of the country’s leading film critics, recognized the company with a film heritage award for...
It is a good time to belong to the cult of Fuller. Those of us who consider ourselves members never forget our moment of induction. Some enlisted when his films first hit the screen—lucky enough to catch The Steel Helmet in a shabby downtown theater, or Forty Guns at a...
“In its blunt, bludgeoning way, White Dog ranks among the toughest and most probing examinations of racism in American cinema,” writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times this week...
No stranger to controversy, Sam Fuller was investigated by the FBI in late 1950, when The Steel Helmet—a priori sensational as the first Korean War film—was attacked as unpatriotic...
No movie is ahead of its time, just ahead of cultural gatekeepers. Sam Fuller knew this better than any other filmmaker after his 1982 White Dog waited almost ten years to get a theatrical...
This week, the New York Times compiled its special annual holiday movie preview, and judging by Charles Taylor and Stephanie Zacharek’s enthusiasm for a slew of upcoming DVD...
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