BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

coolcat01 Finally a film that shows dogs for the drooling monstrous hellhounds that they are!

FilmCriticLalitRao Sometimes good intentions aren't just enough to guarantee critical as well as commercial success to a work of art.'White Dog' is one such work of cinema which was unjustly ignored upon the time of its initial release.This is one reason why both White Dog as well as its director Samuel Fuller are known to only few connoisseurs of cinema around the world.In 'White Dog',director Samuel Fuller presents racism from a different perspective.It is through the depiction of a bizarre animal human relationship with shades of violence that racism is tackled.Before the making of 'White Dog',not many people had an idea about the misuse of dogs especially for violent causes. Deprogramming of dogs as depicted in this film gives hope to animal owners as their pets cannot think and it is easy to influence them. White Dog is based on an original book written by French writer Romain Gary.It would be of immense interest to both dog lovers and viewers interested in topical issues.For this film,director Samuel Fuller collaborated with screenwriter-director Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential)

filmdebateblog Join the debate at filmdebate.wordpress.com THE PROFESSIONAL: I hadn't heard of this movie before I was browsing the Criterion Collection collection at my local independent video store. With such great cover art and a curious synopsis, I couldn't NOT rent it. "Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him." THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE: It felt like a movie of the week, in the most non-pejorative way possible. The soundtrack by Ennio Morricone was my favorite aspect of the movie.THE PROFESSIONAL: I came away much more impressed. I felt it was Jaws with a dog instead of a shark and The Exorcist with racism instead of some evil spirit. Now there were some definite flaws, but you'd have to say it easily tops Cujo.THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE: There needs to be a term like the "uncanny valley" for movies from the 80s and early 90s. It's recent enough that it feels current and identifiable, but old enough to feel cheesy and dated. Whereas movies much older, from the 40s and 50s for example, are so old that they are a completely separate era, and thus it's easier to accept that their styles were just the way they did things back then. The idea and execution were competent, but it was hard to take seriously. I will say it's the best animal acting/directing I've seen this side of "Homeward Bound".THE PROFESSIONAL: Somebody get that dog an Oscar! Postdogously. Yes, there is that 'gee whiz' acting quality of some of the characters / actors – but that is another similarity I see with The Exorcist. The story starts off quietly enough, with some naive individuals who become unknowingly entangled with a very dangerous situation, the true nature of which they become slowly aware of as the situation becomes increasingly more... CONTINUED AT FILMDEBATE.WORDPRESS.COM

Morgan Gray This movie really spoke to me. Although many would think it's a controversial movie, it really isn't; the movie is based on healing living organisms. The dog in this movie was doomed from his birth; the unfortunate tale of his life was very cruel and was not his fault, throughout the movie the audience learns that he is an attack dog, which progresses to a "white dog," a dog trained to attack black people. Once his true colors are announced Julie wants to heal him, she doesn't think its fair he has been subdued to such treatment and doesn't have a chance. Keys, the trainer, has many aspects to his character; the first impression is he seems to be this loving trainer who believes in healing, but we find out he has had a couple opportunities to fix the demented dog. Keys knows the risk in what the dog has done before and what he could do to him, but takes the risk anyway. In the end, the dog has been reconditioned but still not deemed safe by Keys, which is unfortunate because the dog didn't know any better.