Beverly Hills' white dog

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Movie
German title Beverly Hills' white dog
Original title White dog
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1982
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Samuel Fuller
script Samuel Fuller
Curtis Hanson
production Jon Davison
Nick Vahoff
music Ennio Morricone
camera Bruce Surtees
cut Bernard Gribble
occupation

The White Dog of Beverly Hills is a 1982 American film directed by Samuel Fuller based on a story by Romain Gary .

action

The young actress Julie Sawyer accidentally runs into a stray white sheepdog and seriously injures the animal. She nurses him back to health and tries to identify the owner. When she is attacked by a burglar at home, the dog defends her and drives away the attacker.

During a shoot, the dog attacks Julie's black colleague. Julie then takes him to the Carruthers dog trainer. The latter explains to her that the dog is a "white" dog: a racist trained him to attack and kill black people; the dog is a danger. Carruthers advises Julie to have the dog euthanized. The trainer Keys, himself black, convinces her that he can reprogram the dog. After long and intensive work, he has actually got the dog so far that he can no longer attack him. When Julie and Keys celebrate, the dog turns against the white Carruthers and Keys has no choice but to shoot him.

German versions

In Germany, the film was released in 1985 under the title The White Beast, initially uncut. For the later TV broadcast in 1987 under the title The White Dog from Beverly Hills , it was cut by approx. 5 minutes and completely re-dubbed, with the dialogues being partially changed in a meaningful way in order to defuse the thematic explosiveness. Even with later repetitions, the falsified version was always broadcast. It was not until 2012 that the original, authentic and uncut version was released on DVD.

In October 2016 it was broadcast in its original version under the title White Beast on the arte channel. This version contains two lines from the protagonists Julie Sawyer and Keys , who were spoken by new voice actors.

Reviews

“An anti-racist parable whose honest intention is not enough for a good film. Applying too thickly, the film goes too far in the humanization of the animal and, with its socio-therapeutic index finger, has a stronger effect. "

"A rousing thriller about an explosive topic"

"Samuel Fuller shot this formally successful, radical anti-racist thriller with many impressive camera inserts"

Individual evidence

  1. White Beast. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 4, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. The White Dog from Beverly Hills on Cinema.de.
  3. Jump up ↑ The Beverly Hills White Dog on Prism-Online

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