Mean Dog Blues
1978 American drama film
- March 1978 (1978-03)
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Mean Dog Blues is a 1978 American drama film directed by Mel Stuart.[1] It stars Gregg Henry and Kay Lenz.[2]
Plot
After hitchhiking a car ride with a drunken politician and his seductive wife, Paul Ramsey, a singer, offers to take the rap in court when the politician seriously injures a child while under the influence, only to be double-crossed and sentenced to five years in prison. He ends up with other inmates treated sadistically by a brutal prison official who makes them train his hunting dogs including Rattler, a vicious Doberman.
Cast
- Gregg Henry as Paul Ramsey
- Kay Lenz as Linda Ramsey
- George Kennedy as Captain Omar Kinsman
- Scatman Crothers as Mudcat
- Tina Louise as Donna Lacey
- Felton Perry as Jake Turner
- Gregory Sierra as Jesus Gonzales
- James Wainwright as Sergeant Wacker
- William Windom as Victor Lacey
References
External links
- Mean Dog Blues at IMDb
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Films directed by Mel Stuart
- Four Days in November (1964)
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
- I Love My Wife (1970)
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
- One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
- Wattstax (1973)
- Brenda Starr (1976)
- Ruby and Oswald (1978)
- Mean Dog Blues (1978)
- The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)
- The Chisholms (1980)
- Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
- The White Lions (1981)