White Dog

In Los Angeles, unemployed actress Julie Sawyer picks up a white German shepherd that she has knocked down with her car. After having it examined by a vet, she takes the animal home with her and then sets out with her boyfriend to find its owner. However, it turns out that the dog is a so-called ‘white dog’—trained by racists as a puppy to attack people of color. She seeks help from Keys, an African-American animal trainer; he takes on the apparently hopeless challenge of ‘reprogramming’ the dog.

Sam Fuller’s radically anti-racist thriller White Dog is a bitter indictment as well as a fascinating parable, showing that no one is born a racist but made into one.

Cast

Samuel Fuller

Julie Sawyer

Kristy McNichol

Carruthers

Burl Ives

Keys

Paul Winfield

Roland Gray

Jameson Parker

Wilber Hull

Parley Baer