...and became a surprise hit on PBS. SLEEPER PATROL White Dog 1982, Criterion, R, $30 Available for the first time on DVD, Samuel Fuller's controversial thriller centers on an actress ( Kristy McNichol) who adopts a lost white German shepherd, not realizing the...
...suppressed in America, , Samuel Fuller's uncompromising, poignant examination of racism, was deemed too incendiary for a sensitive public and too unmarketable for a studio seeking ''Jaws on Paws.'' Centering on an adopted German shepherd trained to attack...
...Dog Samuel Fuller's follow-up to The Big Red One was shelved by Paramount Pictures before its scheduled release in 1982 because of fears that its premise -- a white dog has been trained to attack black people -- would stir up more controversy than box office....
...matter that it wanted a rep from the NAACP on the set. Nine years later, it played at Film Forum. Veteran B-movie director Samuel Fuller, a liberal who was coming off perhaps his best film, the WWII drama "The Big Red One," couldn't believe Paramount thought...
...Samuel Fuller's White Dog was created, it made a lot of people very nervous. Particularly the studio heads at Paramount. They were hesitant about the idea of releasing the film theatrically, particularly in light of a statement from the NAACP condemning the...
...the week's highlight for me. Other features worth checking out this week include the Criterion Collection's edition of Samuel Fuller's White Dog (which features the unlikely combination of Paul Winfield, Burl Ives, and Kristy McNichol). What can you recommend...
...movie, except that it was in 3-D and is CGI. Otherwise, no one talks about it. White Dog - Criterion Collection - The Samuel Fuller film on American racism that was initially withheld from release in the 80's. I really want to see this, and am planning...
...A cigar-chomping newspaperman turned two-fisted pulp auteur, Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) never had much use for subtlety. His signature style -- lurid, didactic, in-your-face -- would seem to leave little room for ambiguity. But because Fuller's films were often...
...good-to-be-back production featurettes. (Fox, $34.98; single-disc version, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99) Maverick filmmaker Samuel Fuller serves up one of his final Molotov cocktails of B-movie exploitation and in-your-grill commentary on our times, here taking...
...How does a filmmaker approach the theme of racism? Samuel Fuller uses both carefully placed metaphors and overt bluntness in 1982s , and for the latter, he was punished. Because Fuller approached the topic so directly (as he did in 1959s The Crimson Kimono...