White Dog (1982)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Writers:

Samuel Fuller (writer)
Romain Gary (story)
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Release Date:

7 julio 1982 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

Frase comercial:

...Trained To Kill [Video Australia]

Plot:

Paul Winfield is a trainer attempting to reprogram vicious dog who's been trained to attack and kill people with black skin. |

Plot Keywords:

Boyfriend | Deprogramming | Controversial | Tragedy | Dog Attack

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I thought I lived in the United States.

Cast

Kristy McNichol	...	Julie Sawyer
Christa Lang	...	Nurse
Vernon Weddle	...	Vet
Jameson Parker	...	Roland Gray
Karl Lewis Miller	...	Attacker
Karrie Emerson	...	Sun Bather
Helen Siff	...	Pound Operator (as Helen J. Siff)
Glen Garner	...	Pound Worker
Terrence Beasor	...	Pound Driver
Tony Brubaker	...	Sweeper Driver
Samuel Fuller	...	Charlie Felton
Marshall Thompson	...	Director
Paul Bartel	...	Cameraman
Richard Monahan	...	Assistant director
Neyle Morrow	...	Soundman
George Fisher	...	Gondolier
Lynne Moody	...	Molly
Hubert Wells	...	Trainer
Paul Winfield	...	Keys
Martine Dawson	...	Martine
Burl Ives	...	Carruthers
Bob Minor	...	Joe
Dick Miller	...	Animal Trainer #1
Robert Ritchie	...	Animal Trainer #2
Alex Brown	...	Man in Church (as Alex A. Brown)
Clifford A. Pellow	...	Sheriff (as Cliff Pellow)
Sam Laws	...	Charlie
Parley Baer	...	Wilber Hull
Samantha Fuller	...	Helen
Jamie L. Crowe	...	Theona
Joe Hornok	...	Guitar Player (as Joseph R. Hornok)

Dirigida por
Samuel Fuller

Créditos del guión (in alphabetical order)
Samuel Fuller		writer
Romain Gary		story
Curtis Hanson		writer

Producida por
Jon Davison	....	producer
Richard Hashimoto	....	associate producer
Edgar J. Scherick	....	executive producer
Nick Vanoff	....	executive producer

Música original por
Ennio Morricone

Fotografía por
Bruce Surtees

Montaje por
Bernard Gribble

Casting
Jane Feinberg
Mike Fenton

Diseño de producción por
Brian Eatwell

Decorados
Barbara Krieger

Diseño de vestuario por
Ellis Cohen
Gail Viola

Departamento de maquillaje
Adelbert Acevedo	....	makeup artist
Barbara Lorenz	....	hair stylist

Dirección de producción
Richard Hashimoto	....	unit production manager
Michael John Meehan	....	unit production manager (as Mike Meehan)

Ayudante de dirección
Daniel Attias	....	second assistant director
Bill Scott	....	assistant director

Art Department
Sal Sommatino	....	property master

Departamento de sonido
Ray Alba	....	sound effects editor
Jim Bullock	....	sound effects editor
Don Cahn	....	sound re-recording mixer
Carolyn Colwell	....	sound effects editor
Jim Cook	....	sound re-recording mixer
Robert Gravenor	....	sound mixer
Robert L. Harman	....	sound re-recording mixer
Larry Mann	....	dialogue editor
Tom C. McCarthy	....	sound effects editor

Efectos especiales
Dave Allen	....	prosthetics
John Frazier	....	special effects

Especialistas
Kerrie Cullen	....	stunts
Jadie David	....	stunts
Gene LeBell	....	stunts
Steve Martin	....	stunts (as Steve Earl Martin)
Bob Minor	....	stunt coordinator
Sherry Peterson	....	stunts
Wallace Ross	....	stunts
John Sherrod	....	stunts
Eddie Smith	....	stunts
Marvin Walters	....	stunts
George P. Wilbur	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Sidney Ray Baldwin	....	still photographer
Owen Marsh	....	camera operator
Rick Neff	....	camera operator
Charles Saldana	....	key grip
Tom Stern	....	gaffer
Henry Minski	....	assistant camera trainee (uncredited)
Randall Robinson	....	first assistant camera (uncredited)
Bruce D. Spellman	....	second company grip (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Robert Hendricks	....	assistant editor
Pamela Malouf	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Daniel Allan Carlin	....	music editor
Ennio Morricone	....	conductor
Ennio Morricone	....	orchestrator
Dan Wallin	....	music mixer

Otros miembros del equipo
Glen Garner	....	assistant dog trainer
Joe Hornok	....	assistant dog trainer (as Joseph R. Hornok)
Karl Lewis Miller	....	dog trainer
Dan Perri	....	title designer
Kenneth Shiffrin	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Paramount Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (1982) (USA) (theatrical)
• CIC Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• Criterion Collection, The (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Shocking Videos (????) (USA) (DVD)

También conocida como:

Perro blanco (Spain) [es]

Duración:

84 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:16 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Wildlife Way Station - 14831 Little Tujunga Canyon Road, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

Never released theatrically in the United States, supposedly out of concern for its controversial subject matter. It did air on HBO several times.

Movie Connections:

References True Grit (1969)

I thought I lived in the United States.

Where are all the protesters who gather whenever some idiot tries to censor artwork or expression that is contrary to American culture? None of them seem to have shown up when this great work was put on the shelf, then later chopped up. Europeans, with an open eye to American society (only due to the benefit of being distant), were able to see this film with honesty. I say this because that's where it was shown uncut and critically acclaimed.

The truth is that it is a statement about and against racism, completely misunderstood by the civil rights groups and the others who opposed it. It is a good, hard look at the way racism is propagated in America, through the training of not only this one single dog, but of young people by racist adults and peers as the young people mature into adulthood. It tackles the subject with an honesty that is sadly missing in the statements of most anti-racist organizations.

Most groups prefer to gloss over the true causes of racism with platitudes, and a few often have a political agenda that promotes socialistic ideals, so they really don't give full attention to the true causes of racism. Everybody now is so afraid of offending anybody else, that everything becomes a watered-down, grayish, inoffensive litany no more bothersome than grouchiness. Sam Fuller stated in film what it really is, and that is that people learn from others throughout childhood, not always by overt indoctrination but by subtle methods, to think in stereotypical and racist terms. Not just whites thinking of blacks as uneducated gangster-rappers, but also those who think of Native Americans as lazy drinkers, Italians as loud-mouthed mob disciples, country folks as hillbilly trailer trash, and so on.

And Hollywood does little of significance to dispel this, because they mostly grind things down to these kind of stereotypes to fit into the 2-hr film story mode that they like, which is long on violence, sex and action, and short on character. It's easier that way. Thanks to Sam Fuller for his courage.

ADDENDUM: I had the opportunity to see this again recently after 25 years, and it is still as powerful as I remembered. It does have a B-movie quality to it, a roughness that actually makes it better than if it had been a polished film. The final sequence remains as terrifying as anything I've seen in any type of film, horror, suspense, Hitchcock, and so on. And it has a fabulous music score by Ennio Morricone. I'd confidently call this one a must-see!