Dog

...of the 1982 drama. White Dog casts Kristy McNichol as a would-be Hollywood starlet who finds a beautiful white German shepherd and learns the dog has been trained to attack, maim, and ultimately even kill black people. McNichol takes the...

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...to return). But get past the film's at times unintentionally comic first half: Once Paul Winfield enters the picture, playing an animal trainer hellbent on rehabilitating the dog, White Dog becomes thoroughly compelling. A metaphor for...

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...(despite the violence being off-camera) - Winfield and McNichol feel complicit. But it nonetheless reinforces Winfield's obsession with turning the dog. As a metaphor for racism this is hardly subtle stuff, and Fuller's guerilla...

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...defeat in the face of racism, so he obsessively sets out to deprogram it. Locked in gladiatorial battle inside a dome cage, man and dog engage in a bold literalization of the race war that might have been ludicrous if not for the...

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...about a German shepherd trained by white supremacists to attack black people, and the actress (Kristy McNichol) and a dog trainer (Paul Winfield) who try to rehabilitate it. The film "is a fascinating oddity and as clear an indictment of...

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.... The film depicts the struggle of a dog trainer named Keys (Paul Winfield), who is black, trying to retrain a stray dog found by a young actress (Kristy McNichol), that is a "white dog"-a dog trained to viciously attack any black person.

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