

White Dog
“When man’s best friend becomes his fiercest enemy…”
Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties.Today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. 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. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of all animals; the human being.
Genres
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Studio
Paramount Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How White Dog performed
Budget
$8.0M
Worldwide Gross
$46,509
Gross Profit
−$8.0M
Return
0.0× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$7K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast

Julie Sawyer
Kristy McNichol
Julie Sawyer

Keys
Paul Winfield
Keys

Carruthers
Burl Ives
Carruthers

Roland Grale
Jameson Parker
Roland Grale

Nurse
Christa Lang
Nurse

Vet
Vernon Weddle
Vet

Attacker
Karl Lewis Miller
Attacker

Sun Bather
Karrie Emerson
Sun Bather

Pound Operator
Helen Siff
Pound Operator
Pound Worker
Glen Garner
Pound Worker
Pound Driver
Terrence Beasor
Pound Driver

Sweeper Driver
Tony Brubaker
Sweeper Driver
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