Mean Dog Blues
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| Mean Dog Blues | |
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| Directed by | Mel Stuart |
| Written by | George Lefferts |
| Produced by | George Lefferts Charles A. Pratt |
| Starring | Gregg Henry Kay Lenz Scatman Crothers Tina Louise George Kennedy |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Edited by | Houseley Stevenson Jr. |
| Music by | Fred Karlin |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release date | March 1978 |
Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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
- ^ "Mean Dog Blues". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ "Mean Dog Blues (1978) - Mel Stuart - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
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- 1978 films
- 1978 drama films
- 1970s prison drama films
- American prison drama films
- 1970s English-language films
- Films directed by Mel Stuart
- Films scored by Fred Karlin
- 1970s American films