About this title: 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 ...
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Format: DVD
Studio: Criterion Collection
UPC:715515033923
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Description: BRAND NEW. Starring Kristy McNichol, Christa Lang, Vernon Weddle, Jameson Parker, Burl Ives, Paul Winfield. Karl Lewis Miller, Karrie Emerson, Helen Siff, Glen Garner, Terence Beasor, Tony Brubaker, Samuel Fuller, Marshall Thompson, Paul Bartel, George Fisher, Neyle Morrow, Bob Minor, Dick Miller, Martine Dawson, Samantha Fuller, Sam Laws, Robert Ritchie, Alex Brown, Clifford A. Pellow, Jamie L. Crowe and Parley Baer. While driving through the winding cliffs of Los Angeles one night, actress ... read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: CRITERION
UPC:715515033923
Description: BRAND NEW. Samuel Fuller's throat-grabbing expose on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties; today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German Shepard, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A ... read more
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