Mean Dog Blues

1978 American drama film
  • March 1978 (1978-03)
Running time
108 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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

  1. ^ "Mean Dog Blues". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  2. ^ "Mean Dog Blues (1978) - Mel Stuart - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 9 May 2018.

External links

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Films directed by Mel Stuart