What if there was a dog as racist as John Mayer's penis? Sounds far-fetched at first, but after stumbling across the trailer for Paramount's 1982 film "White Dog" in the archives, we're left scratching our chins.

We tend to forget that pets are a product of their environment just as much as we are and this film is a glaring example of just that. When Cujo isn't quite rabid enough, you call in the pros. White Dog's vicious trump card is that he was inexplicably raised to be racist. What transpires next is a mad-doggie hit-list against a series of brown-skinned targets.

This maladjusted canine not only leaps over electrified fences unscathed, but also manages to crash a large construction truck just by lunging at its driver. Even after being taken in by a young Kristy McNichol, who tries to shower him with poochie love, this "four-legged time bomb (the worst kind, naturally)" continues his killing spree.

Eventually, White Dog and his new owner return to the place of his upbringing where a wily old Paul Winfield tries his dog-whispering magic in an effort to either reform the little terror or put him down. Gripping.



Of course, bigoted animals are not at all a new concept in Hollywood. In a Frontline expose, the groundbreaking Chappelle Show tried to shed some light on this epidemic of prejudiced pets in celluloid history.