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White Dog (1982)

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Description
White Dog is a 1982 American drama film directed by Samuel Fuller using a screenplay written by Fuller and Curtis Hanson loosely based on Romain Gary's 1970 novel of the same title. The film depicts the struggle of a dog trainer named Keys (Paul Winfield), who is black, trying to retrain a stray dog found by a young actress (Kristy McNichol), that is a "white dog"—a dog trained to viciously attack any black person. Fuller uses the film as a platform to deliver an anti-racist message as it examines the question of whether racism is a treatable problem or an incurable condition. A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people. Deprogramming a dog who kills Blacks is the ultimate challenge for an unorthodox African-American trainer. When a young Hollywood actress finds the injured stray, she nurses it back to health, not knowing it's a "White Dog" trained by a racist to attack only Blacks. Julie's appalled when the otherwise gentle, white German Shepherd breaks out, then returns from his nighttime foray dotted with human blood. Julie desperately races from trainer to trainer, advised to kill her pet, until the top Hollywood canine expert refers her to his former protégé, Keys.
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White Dog, 1982, Samuel Fuller, Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle, Jameson Parker, Karl Lewis Miller, Karrie Emerson, Helen Siff, Helen J. Siff, Glen Garner, Glen D. Garner, Terrence Beasor, Tony Brubaker, Marshall Thompson, Paul Bartel, Richard Monahan, Neyle Morrow, Paul Winfield, George Fisher, Burl Ives, Bob Minor, Dick Miller, Parley Baer, animal film, dog
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