list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around White Dog on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/White_Dog/78795/default.aspx Title: White Dog
Year: 1982
Director: Samuel Fuller
Plot: A little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (Kristy McNichol) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore mild-mannered dog saves her life by viciously attacking and killing a rapist who breaks into her home. Lucy discovers that the dog has been trained to attack black skin. She consults an animal trainer, Carruthers (Burl Ives), who urges her to have the dog exterminated. But a maverick black trainer, Keys (Paul Winfield), who has tried before to break the training of such dogs but never succeeded, steps in. Director Sam Fuller had made other controversial films, but this one frightened studio executives, who deep-sixed it. It was hailed by critics when it was released in Europe. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:22:54 GMTWhite Dog1982Samuel FullerA little-seen film, suppressed by Paramount studio executives and never released theatrically in the U.S., this drama is a powerful saga about racism. Julie Sawyer (<a href="/players/P____47998/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Kristy McNichol</a>) hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore mild-mannered dog saves her life by viciously attacking and killing a rapist who breaks into her home. Lucy discovers that the dog has been trained to attack black skin. She consults an animal trainer, Carruthers (<a href="/players/P____34703/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Burl Ives</a>), who urges her to have the dog exterminated. But a maverick black trainer, Keys (<a href="/players/P____76898/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Paul Winfield</a>), who has tried before to break the training of such dogs but never succeeded, steps in. Director Sam Fuller had made other controversial films, but this one frightened studio executives, who deep-sixed it. It was hailed by critics when it was released in Europe. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide34Tag Target (>10)19243http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u44952hg6ql.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/White_Dog/78795/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_January_5_Man_s_Best_Friend/625/39518/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: leeroy711
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Post Date: 1/14/2009 10:57:34 AM
Body: [quote user="Smooth_J"] [quote user="mercurial"] I just saw White Dog for the first time a couple weeks ago and sure enough, I will never look at a white german shepherd the same. The dog used in the film is honestly one of the scariest things I have seen and couldn't imagine being attacked by one. [/quote] I'm a bit late here, but I just saw that one too, and it scared the crap out of me. The scene where it walks out of the church covered in blood...sick. [/quote] This must have been the spout movie of the week 'cause I just watched it too. I was completely struck by the choice of images Fuller went with. There just seemed like there was a hell of a lot of scenes in this movie that you just didn't expect to see.
]]>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:57:34 GMTleeroy711Weekly Theme1/14/2009 10:57:34 AM[quote user="Smooth_J"] [quote user="mercurial"] I just saw White Dog for the first time a couple weeks ago and sure enough, I will never look at a white german shepherd the same. The dog used in the film is honestly one of the scariest things I have seen and couldn't imagine being attacked by one. [/quote] I'm a bit late here, but I just saw that one too, and it scared the crap out of me. The scene where it walks out of the church covered in blood...sick. [/quote] This must have been the spout movie of the week 'cause I just watched it too. I was completely struck by the choice of images Fuller went with. There just seemed like there was a hell of a lot of scenes in this movie that you just didn't expect to see. http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_January_5_Man_s_Best_Friend/625/39488/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Smooth_J
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Post Date: 1/13/2009 6:50:29 PM
Body: [quote user="mercurial"] I just saw White Dog for the first time a couple weeks ago and sure enough, I will never look at a white german shepherd the same. The dog used in the film is honestly one of the scariest things I have seen and couldn't imagine being attacked by one. [/quote] I'm a bit late here, but I just saw that one too, and it scared the crap out of me. The scene where it walks out of the church covered in blood...sick.
]]>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:50:29 GMTSmooth_JWeekly Theme1/13/2009 6:50:29 PM[quote user="mercurial"] I just saw White Dog for the first time a couple weeks ago and sure enough, I will never look at a white german shepherd the same. The dog used in the film is honestly one of the scariest things I have seen and couldn't imagine being attacked by one. [/quote] I'm a bit late here, but I just saw that one too, and it scared the crap out of me. The scene where it walks out of the church covered in blood...sick. http://www.spout.com/groups/Community_Recommendations/Re_Need_more_Noir/643/39308/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 1/9/2009 12:06:52 PM
Body: [quote user="leeroy711"] [quote user="Risselada"] I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor. [/quote] Thank you thank you, the only ones of these I've seen were Night of the Hunter, - which had a pretty dark story but I really didn't like that it was all done in a studio. And Third Man was pretty incredible. I haven't seen The Big Sleep, but I have seen The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) which was the one I was actually trying to think of when I mentioned Fury. I think Fury would actually probably be considered pre-noir. I've kinda been on a Sam Fuller kick ever since I watch Shock Corridor earlier this year. I friggin' loved that one. I just got White Dog in the mail the other day but I haven't watched it yet. [/quote] Yeah, if you see any of them, especially one of the first three, I'm excited to hear what you think! Let me know how White Dog goes.
]]>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:06:52 GMTRisseladaCommunity Recommendations1/9/2009 12:06:52 PM[quote user="leeroy711"] [quote user="Risselada"] I've seen all of these except for Fury, and they are all fantastic!! You MUST see these: Born to Kill Murder, My Sweet Out of the Past And these are also highly recommended and are all listed as film-noir on IMDB (for what it's worth): Sunset Blvd. The Big Sleep White Heat The Night of the Hunter Strangers on a Train The Third Man The Maltese Falcon And if you liked Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street you should check out another one of my favorites from him, Shock Corridor. [/quote] Thank you thank you, the only ones of these I've seen were Night of the Hunter, - which had a pretty dark story but I really didn't like that it was all done in a studio. And Third Man was pretty incredible. I haven't seen The Big Sleep, but I have seen The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) which was the one I was actually trying to think of when I mentioned Fury. I think Fury would actually probably be considered pre-noir. I've kinda been on a Sam Fuller kick ever since I watch Shock Corridor earlier this year. I friggin' loved that one. I just got White Dog in the mail the other day but I haven't watched it yet. [/quote] Yeah, if you see any of them, especially one of the first three, I'm excited to hear what you think! Let me know how White Dog goes. http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_January_5_Man_s_Best_Friend/625/39175/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: mercurial
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Post Date: 1/6/2009 9:54:37 PM
Body: I just saw White Dog for the first time a couple weeks ago and sure enough, I will never look at a white german shepherd the same. The dog used in the film is honestly one of the scariest things I have seen and couldn't imagine being attacked by one. Has anyone seen Bolt? I've heard only good things about and should probably see it before it leaves theaters.
]]>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:54:37 GMTmercurialWeekly Theme1/6/2009 9:54:37 PMI just saw White Dog for the first time a couple weeks ago and sure enough, I will never look at a white german shepherd the same. The dog used in the film is honestly one of the scariest things I have seen and couldn't imagine being attacked by one. Has anyone seen Bolt? I've heard only good things about and should probably see it before it leaves theaters. http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/9/29/35682.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 9/29/2008 12:01:19 PM
Body: The next four months are to be the most intensely self-conscious, galvanizing, awkward, crazed, humiliating, uplifting, maudlin and surreal period in American racial history. A black man will or will not be chosen as the next President of the United States. My fingers tremble as I type this. As a black-and-white racial spectacle, this is bigger than black Jack Johnson casually beating the living shit out of white Jim Jeffries before all of Anglo-America in 1910. This is bigger than Bigger Thomas. This is bigger than Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, the Edmund Pettis Bridge, Emmet Till, the March on Washington, OJ, Rodney King, Willie Horton, Jeremiah Wright, the riots, the assassinations, the aggregate of four centuries of two races trading hostilities while building up this nation. This is it. A partial descendant of slaves takes the helm of the American Empire. Or not: Maybe McCain plays into enough fears and received notions to convince his base and those volition-less swing voters that we can have morning in America once more. Those geniuses at Criterion Collection have anticipated the moment andplan to give it something special. Their new high-definition restoration of Sam Fuller’s White Dog is due on DVD in December, just when all hell should be breaking loose. Fuller’s 1982 adaptation of the Romain Gary novel about a dog trained to attack and kill black people is a nightmare of the Reagan Era. Told with the broad earnestness of a sweeps week Diff’rent Strokes episode, White Dog is easy to dismiss as Public Service Announcement on hate crimes. Ennio Morricone’s somber score captures the heartbreak of racism but also emphasizes the movie’s cuddly, Benji-esque sentimentality. The presence of aging teen starlet Kristy McNichol as the dog’s unsuspecting Hollywood-liberal owner is also good for a snicker to anyone over 30. But Fuller’s mise-en-scene has never been more precise, operatic or unsettling. White Dog’s visual scheme is less about racism than about the panic and dismay that grips witnesses of racist violence and the loved ones of violent racists. Just as the real horror of Brian DePalma’s Carrie adaptation was not her satanic power but th casual cruelty she lived with daily, White Dog’s main subject is not the dog’s bite but its ugly, irrational bark. And a la DePalma’s slo-mo bucket of pig blood showering a prom dress, Fuller attenuates moments of shame and distress far longer than the initial or subsequent act of violence. Cinematographer Bruce Surtees covers the mayhem with the dynamism he brought to actioners like Dirty Harry. With its comic book compositions, this flick is virtually a graphic novel about national character and destiny, like 300, A History of Violence and The Dark Knight. But Fuller’s vision is a lot less polished, much more dreamlike–closer to Lynch’s Blue Velvet in its surreal flourishes than today’s all-business Big Idea pop spectacles. Never released theatrically and shown on cable TV sporadically over the years, White Dog is finally rearing it’s snarling, snapping head at the perfect time in American history. If the Blue Velvet comparison sounds a bit extreme for those who have seen the movie and found it’s metaphors (not to mention the acting) pretty crude, I’ll let Sun Ra carry the argument further, from beyond the grave. But don’t click the link if you haven’t yet seen the movie–wait ’til December. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:19 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com9/29/2008 12:01:19 PMThe next four months are to be the most intensely self-conscious, galvanizing, awkward, crazed, humiliating, uplifting, maudlin and surreal period in American racial history. A black man will or will not be chosen as the next President of the United States. My fingers tremble as I type this. As a black-and-white racial spectacle, this is bigger than black Jack Johnson casually beating the living shit out of white Jim Jeffries before all of Anglo-America in 1910. This is bigger than Bigger Thomas. This is bigger than Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, the Edmund Pettis Bridge, Emmet Till, the March on Washington, OJ, Rodney King, Willie Horton, Jeremiah Wright, the riots, the assassinations, the aggregate of four centuries of two races trading hostilities while building up this nation. This is it. A partial descendant of slaves takes the helm of the American Empire. Or not: Maybe McCain plays into enough fears and received notions to convince his base and those volition-less swing voters that we can have morning in America once more. Those geniuses at Criterion Collection have anticipated the moment andplan to give it something special. Their new high-definition restoration of Sam Fuller’s White Dog is due on DVD in December, just when all hell should be breaking loose. Fuller’s 1982 adaptation of the Romain Gary novel about a dog trained to attack and kill black people is a nightmare of the Reagan Era. Told with the broad earnestness of a sweeps week Diff’rent Strokes episode, White Dog is easy to dismiss as Public Service Announcement on hate crimes. Ennio Morricone’s somber score captures the heartbreak of racism but also emphasizes the movie’s cuddly, Benji-esque sentimentality. The presence of aging teen starlet Kristy McNichol as the dog’s unsuspecting Hollywood-liberal owner is also good for a snicker to anyone over 30. But Fuller’s mise-en-scene has never been more precise, operatic or unsettling. White Dog’s visual scheme is less about racism than about the panic and dismay that grips witnesses of racist violence and the loved ones of violent racists. Just as the real horror of Brian DePalma’s Carrie adaptation was not her satanic power but th casual cruelty she lived with daily, White Dog’s main subject is not the dog’s bite but its ugly, irrational bark. And a la DePalma’s slo-mo bucket of pig blood showering a prom dress, Fuller attenuates moments of shame and distress far longer than the initial or subsequent act of violence. Cinematographer Bruce Surtees covers the mayhem with the dynamism he brought to actioners like Dirty Harry. With its comic book compositions, this flick is virtually a graphic novel about national character and destiny, like 300, A History of Violence and The Dark Knight. But Fuller’s vision is a lot less polished, much more dreamlike–closer to Lynch’s Blue Velvet in its surreal flourishes than today’s all-business Big Idea pop spectacles. Never released theatrically and shown on cable TV sporadically over the years, White Dog is finally rearing it’s snarling, snapping head at the perfect time in American history. If the Blue Velvet comparison sounds a bit extreme for those who have seen the movie and found it’s metaphors (not to mention the acting) pretty crude, I’ll let Sun Ra carry the argument further, from beyond the grave. But don’t click the link if you haven’t yet seen the movie–wait ’til December. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/digitalconquest/archive/2008/5/18/29413.aspx Post By: digitalconquest
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Body: The full uncut version of the film that scared studios so much that they withdrew the movie from U.S. theaters, even after severe cuts were made! Rarely seen due to controversy, Samuel Fuller’s horrific tale of blind racism is a powerful and engaging movie. Kristy McNichol accidentally hits a beautiful white German Shepard with her car on the way home. She saves the dog and then decides to keep it when it returns the favor after a serial rapist attacks her! It doesn’t take long before she is convinced that her new pet and protector is a White Dog, trained to attack black people by racist monsters! Knowing it isn’t the dog’s fault she turns to Burl Ives and Paul Winfield to kill the hate rather than the animal! It’s all highly illegal and their good intentions may land them in prison if the dog escapes and kills again! Not only does this version contain the film the way director Samuel Fuller intended it also has an incredible score by Ennio Morricone and brilliant cinematography by Clint Eastwood’s regular cameraman Bruce Surtees! Prosthetics for some of the bloodier effects are by Stan Winston and keep a sharp eye out for cameos from Samuel Fuller himself as well as Dick Miller and Paul Bartel!
]]>Sun, 18 May 2008 17:19:14 GMTdigitalconquestdigitalconquest Blog5/18/2008 1:19:14 PM The full uncut version of the film that scared studios so much that they withdrew the movie from U.S. theaters, even after severe cuts were made! Rarely seen due to controversy, Samuel Fuller&rsquo;s horrific tale of blind racism is a powerful and engaging movie. Kristy McNichol accidentally hits a beautiful white German Shepard with her car on the way home. She saves the dog and then decides to keep it when it returns the favor after a serial rapist attacks her! It doesn&rsquo;t take long before she is convinced that her new pet and protector is a White Dog, trained to attack black people by racist monsters! Knowing it isn&rsquo;t the dog&rsquo;s fault she turns to Burl Ives and Paul Winfield to kill the hate rather than the animal! It&rsquo;s all highly illegal and their good intentions may land them in prison if the dog escapes and kills again! Not only does this version contain the film the way director Samuel Fuller intended it also has an incredible score by Ennio Morricone and brilliant cinematography by Clint Eastwood&rsquo;s regular cameraman Bruce Surtees! Prosthetics for some of the bloodier effects are by Stan Winston and keep a sharp eye out for cameos from Samuel Fuller himself as well as Dick Miller and Paul Bartel! http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/friendship/MemberTagFilms.aspxfriendship
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