The read
A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 94%. Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 82% of the 1,365 1980s drama movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
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.
Ratings
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
312 audience votes
Key crew
- Samuel FullerDirector
- Samuel FullerScreenplay
- Curtis HansonScreenplay
- Ennio MorriconeOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Kristy McNicholJulie Sawyer
- Paul WinfieldKeys
- Burl IvesCarruthers
- Jameson ParkerRoland Grale
- Christa LangNurse
- Vernon WeddleVet
- Karl Lewis MillerAttacker
- Karrie EmersonSun Bather
- Helen SiffPound Operator
- Glen GarnerPound Worker
- Terrence BeasorPound Driver
- Tony BrubakerSweeper Driver
Stills
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Themes
The Best Movies of 1982
White Dog is #24 of 60
