White Dog

1982 · directed by Samuel Fuller

Rating

78/100

Hit

no

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.

White Dog (1982), directed by Samuel Fuller, rates 78/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Kristy McNichol
• Paul Winfield
• Burl Ives
• Jameson Parker
• Christa Lang
• Vernon Weddle
• Karl Lewis Miller
• Karrie Emerson
• Helen Siff
• Glen Garner

Crew

• Bruce Surtees — Director of Photography
• Bernard Gribble — Editor
• Ennio Morricone — Original Music Composer
• Curtis Hanson — Screenplay
• Samuel Fuller — Screenplay

More from Samuel Fuller

1. Underworld U.S.A. (1961) — 83/100 · hit
2. The Steel Helmet (1951) — 83/100 · hit
3. Pickup on South Street (1953) — 82/100 · hit
4. Shock Corridor (1963) — 80/100 · hit
5. The Naked Kiss (1964) — 78/100
6. The Big Red One (1980) — 75/100

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