White Dog (Masters of Cinema) (Dual Format Edition) [Blu-ray + DVD] [1982]

Paramount Got The Rights To a Novel,"By Romain Garry" Around 1971,The Film Was Then Made In1981,Paramount Then Got Cold Feet after The Film Was Completed and Relegated It To The ShelfWhere It Remained Unseen In U.S Theatres,"The Thought Of Having an Actress Taking In a WhiteAlsation That Is Trained To Attack Black People Was Just Too Controversial and The Film WasLabelled as Racist",Then a Few Years Later It Was Breifly Shown In Europe,"France and The Uk"Was Highly Praised and Hailed as a Masterpeice,"By Some Critics" Before Arriving In The Uk"in its Full Version" on Home Video Courtesy Of CIC/Paramount,"Though This Had To BeRe.Certificated To "15" as It Was Wrongly Classed as a,"PG".Meanwhile In The U.S It Still Remained Unseen In Theatres Before Pramount Sold It To CableTelevision,"In a Slightly Re.Edited Version".in the States It Was Still Redeamed as TooControversial"This Release Features The Film,"In Its Original Format and Comes With an Informative Booklet WithBackground about The Film and a,"Mock" Interview With The Canine Star,"Sadly Again Kristy DidNot Contribute",Her Performance Krist Is Very Fine as,"Basically Herself" and Though I PersonallyThink She Was a Bit Too,"Young" For The Role Delivers a Decent Performance and Looks VeryFine in Late 1981 Styles,"She Does Look Her age" Though Not Too Sure about The Pink andWhite Knee High Socks,"I Was Only 11 When This Was Made",and Is Aibly Supprted By PaulWinfield,"Who had Worked With Producer Scherrick On Gordons War" Parker Stephenson,"Simonand Simon" and Veteran actor/Singer,"Burl Ives" While Long Time Clint Eastwood Associate"Bruce Surtees" Camerawork Is Fautless and Ennio Morricones Score Ranks among His Best.This Release "Although Dual Format" Is The Same as The U.S Release On Criterion Masters OfCinema and Is,"Completely Official" One Version Did appear On "Substanance" Wich Used TheImages That First Appeared On The Uk,"C.I.C" VHS Release While 2 Disc Version Has AppearedThat Includes a Cd of Morricones Score,"To My Knowladge This Has Only Officially AppearedOn a Strictly Limited Edition CD,So This May Be a Bootleg/NON Official Release" While an"OffIcial" Italian Import Release has Also Appeared...Kristy Delivering a Serious PerformanceIn a Film That Was Mailgned Mis-Stated and Vastly Underrated and Remains One Of TheGreat "Lost" Films Of The Early 1980s..Both Picture Quality and Transfer are Very Goodand Apart From The Aftermentioned V.H.S Release In 1984,"It Only Ever Appeared asa Rental Tape" Its Hardly Ever Been Shown On British Televison,"It Did Appear onChannel 4 Who Were at The Time Screening a Sam Fuller Season,"This was FairlyNew Ground For a Director Who had Largely Handled World War 2 Adventures/TheBig Red One/Merrils Marauders/Fixed Bayonets" It Should also Be Noted That SkyMovies Did Screen all Of Kristys Films During The 90s,When She Was On Tv In"Empty Nest". Barry.J/GB/UK

Leave it to the geniuses at Eureka to restore and release this most important movie. This is the picture that made Sam Fuller bail out od La La Land and emigrate to Europe. The resurrected image and soundtrack are pristine. The dealer of thismBlu-ray is to be commended. Obviously a lover of cinema. Very important to the hjome viewer these days. Delivery was fast, almost early, I think. Product was exactly as described.

Killed by Paramount pictures who grasped the wrong end of the stick thought the film was racist and didn't know that they were dealing with the genius of Sam Fuller.The film is brilliant in its subject matter and handles it in an even handed way.Fuller always treated any subject matter with his own powerful emotions and this is no exception.Add to that a score by fellow genius Ennio Morricone and you get a film which is finally getting the audience it deserved back in 1982

Another one of the Masters of Cinema serie, with a DVD and Blueray disk. The quality of both is identical.....no bonus material, except a 40 page booklet. Fuller is one of my favorite directors, with the ability to get across his message in the limits of his often limited budgets. French author Romain Gary 's book was used as the basis of the story, although the film takes the idea of training dogs to attack people of a certain color in a different direction at the end. Apparently, the subject of racism wasn't the cup of tea for 1970's America, and this film ended up in the drawer.....too bad.....sometimes we should look in the mirror, and see if WE have a bit of White Dog in us, too. Then, if we see it, let's correct it and try to make the world a Better place.

A thousand other directors could have attempted this and the result would have been a travesty. Not so Mr Fuller, who creates a compelling, fascinating film. It plays very like a horror film, it was probably the last great film Fuller made.

This is a film I first saw back in the 80's as a teenager. It had a huge effect on me and stuck with me. I often thought about the film but it's been unavailable for many years. I watched it recently on a streaming service and was bowled over by it again. I had to own it. The direction, the acting and the score (by Ennio Morricone) are all first rate. It's a great performance by the late, great Paul Winfield and the film uses melodrama to keep the focus on the themes of racism, indoctrination and the damage caused by hatred. Powerful stuff that may not be for everyone.

This excellent movie in my opinion has been overlooked.A young actress hits a dog with her car. She takes the dog under her wing and nurses him back to good health. The dog becomes very close to her protecting her from a guy who breaks into her house.But she learns that the dog is not the perfect dog. In fact the dog has been trained to attack and kill black people. The film sends out a very strong and clear message.The negative part is the dvd copy. The picture quality looks like it's been transformed straight from VHS.Apart from that - good movie!

One of my all time favourite movies. Be sure to have lots of tissues 🤧