White Dog (Criterion Collection) PG
When man’s best friend becomes his fiercest enemy…
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 2, 2008
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Winfield & Kristy McNichol | |
Performer: | Christa Lang, Burl Ives, Lynne Moody, Jameson Parker, Marshall Thompson & Samuel Fuller | |
Directed by | Samuel Fuller | |
Screenwriting by | Curtis Hanson & Samuel Fuller | |
Composition by | Ennio Morricone | |
Produced by | Jon Davison | |
Director of Photography: | Burt Surtees |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
one film that will never make it into the Animal Planet lineup.
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Filmcritic.com
Rating: 5/5 --
A simply told story that says more about racism than many NAACP-approved films.
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eFilmCritic.com
There is no excitement to these scenes -- which is as it should be. The filming is sparse, with no clutter.
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Combustible Celluloid
The central motive of the movie plays like a tragic melody.
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Cinemaphile.org
[An] uncompromising, poignant examination of racism....A gripping, meditative, and ultimately beautiful achievement... -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/4 --
Hate is a dog from hell in White Dog, Samuel Fuller's abused and abandoned late-career masterpiece about homegrown racism.
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Slant Magazine
Sat on the shelf at Paramount for ten years... and was not shown in U.S. cinemas until it received retrospective festival screenings.
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Product Description:
Sam Fuller's blunt parable about racism, WHITE DOG, explores what happens when a young actress (Christy McNichol) adopts a German Shephard that has been trained to attack black people. After a number of terrifying attacks, she hires a black trainer (Paul Winfield) to rehabilitate the animal. Together, their effort to cure the white dog of its vicious upbringing becomes something an ethical experiment: can hatred be unlearned'
A trenchant moral drama that isn't subtle, or easy to forget, WHITE DOG is well aided by Ennio Morricone's fine musical score which deepens its operatic dimensions and adds a layer of psychological unease. Produced in 1982, the film's controversial subject matter caused it to be withheld from theatrical release until 1991. Loosely adapted from the memoir by Romain Gary, Fuller co-wrote the screenplay with a pre-L.A. CONFIDENTIAL Curtis Hanson.
A trenchant moral drama that isn't subtle, or easy to forget, WHITE DOG is well aided by Ennio Morricone's fine musical score which deepens its operatic dimensions and adds a layer of psychological unease. Produced in 1982, the film's controversial subject matter caused it to be withheld from theatrical release until 1991. Loosely adapted from the memoir by Romain Gary, Fuller co-wrote the screenplay with a pre-L.A. CONFIDENTIAL Curtis Hanson.
Description by Image Entertainment:
Samuel Fuller's throat-grabbing expose 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 Shepard, 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.