White Dog poster

White Dog

19821h 30mDrama · Horror · Thriller
directed by Samuel Fuller

“When man’s best friend becomes his fiercest enemy…”

Not yet rated Compare with…

Ratings report

Not yet rated by me
TMDB
6.6 / 10
301 votes
IMDb
7 / 10
11,209 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
94%

The scorecard

Not yet rated

In the archive, not yet reviewed.

This film has its place on the shelf, but it hasn't been through the screening room. You can put it through the same ten-part system yourself below.

Rate it yourself (same ten-part system)

Your ratings are stored only in this browser. They are never uploaded, and there is no shared visitor average. Export a JSON backup to move them between browsers.

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Kristy McNichol·Julie Sawyer
Paul Winfield·Keys
Burl Ives·Carruthers
Jameson Parker·Roland Grale
Christa Lang·Nurse
Vernon Weddle·Vet
Karl Lewis Miller·Attacker
Karrie Emerson·Sun Bather
Helen Siff·Pound Operator
Glen Garner·Pound Worker