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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515033923
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2008
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 4208
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: 1982
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Product Description:
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 animals: the human being.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the uncut version, approved by producer Jon Davison
New video interviews with producer Davison, co-writer Curtis Hanson, and Sam Fuller s widow, Christa Lang-Fuller
An interview with dog trainer Karl Lewis-Miller
Rare photos from the film s production
PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by critics J. Hoberman and Armond White, plus a rare 1982 interview in which Fuller interviews the canine star of the film
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "Four-legged time bomb!"
White Dog was Samuel Fuller's last Hollywood film and arguably his most controversial. No easy feat from the man who tackled racism with Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection, patriotism with Pickup on South Street (1953), and made deeply profound anti-war films like The Steel Helmet (1951) and Merrill's Marauders (1962). White Dog tells the story of a German shepherd dog trained to attack African Americans.
The DVD is a little light in the extras department but they of high quality. ... Read More
Rating: - Typical Sam Fuller - which is to say, not typical at all.
At times crude, heavy-handed, stilted, screamingly melodramatic or extremely wobbly, it's tempting to knock off a star because I know these things are there - but here's the thing: those elements are present in most of Fuller's films, and they would be major defects in ANY other film, but, inexplicably, they do absolutely nothing to diminish the power of Fuller's films, which is often tremendous - and that's also typical of Fuller. I have no idea how he pulled it off, and it makes these movies stick ... Read More
Rating:  - BITE ME
Horrible, tedious, and shallow. It fails on every level. The dialog is insipid, and the acting never leaves the ground. It's not the actors' fault, though. You can tell they weren't getting any direction. The script drops the lead character (who is flatly drawn to begin with) 30 minutes into the film. The premise of the movie, the central metaphor, has a lot of potential, but the director/writer failed to take advantage of it. When you take on a subject as controversial as racism, you should do it justice ... Read More
Rating:  - White Dog: When Man Becomes His Own Worst Enemy.
Samuel Fuller's name is synonymous with his 1980 film The Big Red One and with his more controversial films Shock Corridor (1963), The Naked Kiss (1964), and White Dog (1982), which the studio (Paramount) refused to release until 1991 because of its subject: racism. Based on a 1970 semi-autobiographical novel by Romain Gary involving a stray German shepherd, White Dog stars Paul Winfield, Kristy McNichol, Jameson Parker and Burl Ives. It tells the story of an unmarried young actress, Julie Sawyer (McNichol), ... Read More
Rating:  - THIS DOG STILL BITES!
In 1982, Samuel Fuller's "WHITE DOG" created a storm of controversy that resulted in a limited theatrical release with no follow-up video until now.
What was falsely labeled an incendiary racist film that could provoke real life violence is instead a bold anti-racist parable about how racism is learned or taught. In the movie the metaphor is a dog that has been trained to attack people with dark skin.
The origin of the story is a harrowing true incident Romain Gary wrote about in Life ... Read More
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