Kristy McNichol
Actor
Wide release of 'White Dog' is long overdue...to deprogram the dog. Later, when the animal escapes and kills someone in a church - arguably the film's most harrowing sequence (despite the violence being off-camera) - Winfield and McNichol feel complicit. But it nonetheless... In this article: White Dog, Samuel Fuller, Dog, Paul Winfield, Hollywood, Kristy McNichol, Jaws, The Big Red One, World War II, and DVD |
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
White Dog (book)
The novel's original ending was also changed to make it more pessimistic. Directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Paul Winfield and Kristy McNichol, the film's theatrical release was suppressed in the United States out of concern of negative...
In this article: Romain Gary, White Dog, Dog, Jean Seberg, Samuel Fuller, Marlon Brando, France, Suicide, White Dog, and New American Library
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | December 23, 2008
DVD review: White 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...
In this article: White Dog, Sam Fuller, Dog, DVD, Lars von Trier, Paul Winfield, German shepherd, Ennio Morricone, and David Frost
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White Dog
.... 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.
In this article: White Dog, Dog, Samuel Fuller, Paul Winfield, Romain Gary, and DVD
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New York Times | December 01, 2008
Critic's Choice: New DVDs: Douglas Fairbanks
...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...
In this article: Douglas Fairbanks, Blu-ray, Zorro, Nihilism, DVD, Wanted, Allan Dwan, Will Ferrell, and D. W. Griffith
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Miami Herald - 5-minute Herald | December 15, 2008
Now you can skip the yakking and sing as loud as you want
...fascinating, White Dog has the cut-and-paste feel of a project that endured a lot of studio tampering (a romantic subplot involving McNichol and her boyfriend, for example, literally disappears mid-film, never to return). But get past...
In this article: White Dog, Mamma Mia!, Sam Fuller, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Dog, Shock Corridor, Meryl Streep, and Curtis Hanson
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Holiday Movies: Holiday DVDs
...groups. In this adaptation of the Romain Gary story, Kristy McNichol, below, plays a young Los Angeles actress who takes in a pure white German shepherd stray only to discover that the dog has been trained to attack black people. The black...
In this article: Maggie Cheung, Paul Winfield, Samuel Fuller, Chungking Express, White Dog, Magnificent Obsession, Douglas Sirk, Randolph Scott, and Irma Vep
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Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol (born September 11, 1962 in Los Angeles, California) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning actress who has since retired from the industry. She is best known for her roles as Letitia "Buddy" Lawrence on the TV drama Family, and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest. She is also the sister of former child actor Jimmy McNichol. McNichol's career came to a sudden close when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992.
- Name At Birth:
- Christina Ann McNichol
- Birth Date:
- September 11, 1962
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