White Dog

Haifa Classics

"The screenplay had passed through various hands before Fuller shaped it into a tale, both resonantly mysterious and powerfully direct"

The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Samuel Fuller
  • USA 1982
  • 90 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

A young actress adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people. Following a savage incident, she takes it to dog trainers, who set about working on re-conditioning the animal.

With his controversial late masterpiece White Dog, Samuel Fuller offers a brutally direct yet disturbingly nuanced allegory of American racism. White Dog was deemed too incendiary and shelved by Paramount for almost a decade, a move that drove Fuller into self-imposed exile in Paris, effectively ending his Hollywood career.

Filmography: The Big Red One (1980), The Naked Kiss (1964), Shock Corridor (1963), Merrill's Marauders (1962), Run of the Arrow (1957).

 


  • Director Samuel Fuller
  • Production Jon Davison
  • Script Curtis Hanson, Samuel Fuller, based on a story by Romain Gary
  • Cinematography Bruce Surtees
  • Editing Bernard Gribble
  • Actors Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle, Burl Ives
  • Source Park Circus, Glasgow
  • Music Ennio Morricone