Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- police
- alcohol
- burglar
- trainer
- racist
- murder
- attack
- hollywood
- dog
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Christa Lang — Nurse
- Vernon Weddle — Vet
- Karl Lewis Miller — Attacker
- Karrie Emerson — Sun Bather
- Helen Siff — Pound Operator
- Glen Garner — Pound Worker
- Terrence Beasor — Pound Driver
- Tony Brubaker — Sweeper Driver
- Samuel Fuller — Charlie Felton
- Marshall Thompson — Director
- Paul Bartel — Cameraman
- Directed
- Samuel Fuller
- Written
- Curtis Hanson, Romain Gary, Samuel Fuller
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 300 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
