Release Date: 09/11/2007
Label/Distributor: Televista
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price: $24.95
Genre: Action & Adventure Cast: Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives
Director: Samuel Fuller
Running Time: 89
DVD Video Options: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
DVD Audio Options: English, Original Language
UPC Code: 018619198285
Starring Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle, Jameson Parker, Burl Ives, Paul Winfield. Karl Lewis Miller, Karrie Emerson, Helen Siff, Glen Garner, Terence Beasor, Tony Brubaker, Samuel Fuller, Marshall Thompson, Paul Bartel, George Fisher, Neyle Morrow, Bob Minor, Dick Miller, Martine Dawson, Samantha Fuller, Sam Laws, Robert Ritchie, Alex Brown, Clifford A. Pellow, Jamie L. Crowe and Parley Baer. While driving through the winding cliffs of Los Angeles one night, actress Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a white German Shepherd dog with her car and then nurses it back to health. One day, the seemingly mild-mannered dog saves her life by viciously attacking a
White Dog
By Cyril Pearl -- Video Business, 11/10/2008
CRITERION/IMAGEStreet: Dec. 2
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> Sam Fuller’s 1982 drama gets its first U.S. release.
Sam Fuller’s fascinating 1982 film White Dog receives its first official release in the U.S. in this Criterion Collection edition. A Hollywood starlet (Kristy McNichol) takes in a stray German shepherd and soon learns that it has been trained to attack black people. She takes it to a dog-training facility, where a top trainer (Paul Winfield), a black man who believes that racism can be unlearned, is determined to break the dog of its murderous programming. Bombastic, odd and quite chilling, White Dog is an indictment of racism and now, more than ever, deserves an audience.
Shelf Talk: Apparently misunderstood and unappreciated by parent studio Paramount, White Dog was never given a U.S. theatrical release. Director Fuller has a substantial following, many of whom have been waiting for this one. Also, there could be interest in leading lady McNichol.
Drama, color, PG (mature themes, violence), 90 min., DVD $29.99Extras: interviews
Director: Sam Fuller
First Run: DVD premiere
