In Samuel Fuller's White Dog, Kristy McNichol plays an actress who rescues the titular stray canine only to learn that it's trained to attack people with dark skin. She hires a kind of dog whisperer to re-program the animal's racist aggression, but there's doubt as to whether it can be rehabilitated. The film tells a difficult and symbolic tale with very little dialog and straightforward, unromantic violence. Both these traits are already recognizable in the early work of screenwriter Curtis Hanson, who later penned LA Confidential. The movie was a career-killer for Fuller, though; Paramount caved to the controversy surrounding the film and pulled it from theaters, and Fuller never worked with an American studio again.