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White Dog

1982

Samuel Fuller

Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, Jameson Parker ...

6.5

1,846

Drama Julie Sawyer hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore mild-mannered dog saves her life by viciously attacking and killing a rapist who breaks into her home. Lucy discovers that the dog has been trained to attack black skin. She consults an animal trainer, Carruthers, who urges her to have the dog exterminated. But a maverick black trainer, Keys, who has tried before to ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"As in the fables of Aesop and La Fontaine, the hero of Fuller’s parable may be a dog, but the subject is the human race."
		Fernando F. Croce Slant	"Hate is a dog from hell in White Dog, Samuel Fuller's abused and abandoned late-career masterpiece about homegrown racism."
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A fascinating oddity and as clear an indictment of racism as one might ever see"

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