A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Helen Siff
- Pound Operator
- (as Helen J. Siff)
Glen Garner
- Pound Worker
- (as Glen D. Garner)
- Director
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- TriviaThis film is based on a true story. While she was living in Hollywood with her husband, writer Romain Gary, actress Jean Seberg brought home a large white dog she had found on the street that seemed friendly and playful. However, when the animal saw her Black gardener, it attacked him viciously, injuring him. Afterward, the couple kept it in the backyard, but one day, it got out and attacked another Black man on the street, but no one else. After this happened a third time, they realized that someone had trained the dog to attack and injure only Black people. Gary wrote a short piece about it for "Life" magazine in 1970, which eventually became a full-length fiction novel.
- GoofsJust before the white dog finally takes the hamburger from his trainer, he looks up at him and, just under his lip, shows the edge of the prosthetics that hold his cheeks in a snarl.
- Quotes
Roland Gray: You got a four-legged time bomb!
- ConnectionsFeatured in From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995)
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I can't let this be the only comment for White Dog.
The best film about racism and hatred I've ever seen, with the basic message that hatred isn't something a child is born with, it's something they have been taught. And the question is raised, can you un-teach them?
A black animal trainer (Paul Winfield) attempts to re-train an attack dog taught to kill people with black skin.
Paramount tucked it's tail between it's legs when protesters who had never seen the film claimed it was the work of racists.
Fuller moved to France and never made another American movie. (He made one in France)
PS: to the lady above me, that annoying piano is Ennio Morricone and he has forgotten more about music than you will ever know.
The best film about racism and hatred I've ever seen, with the basic message that hatred isn't something a child is born with, it's something they have been taught. And the question is raised, can you un-teach them?
A black animal trainer (Paul Winfield) attempts to re-train an attack dog taught to kill people with black skin.
Paramount tucked it's tail between it's legs when protesters who had never seen the film claimed it was the work of racists.
Fuller moved to France and never made another American movie. (He made one in France)
PS: to the lady above me, that annoying piano is Ennio Morricone and he has forgotten more about music than you will ever know.
- ryanlangerud
- Sep 7, 2004
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- Also known as
- Der weiße Hund von Beverly Hills
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- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $46,509
- Gross worldwide
- $46,509
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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