Mean Dog Blues

Mean Dog Blues is a 1978 American drama film directed by Mel Stuart. It stars Gregg Henry and Kay Lenz. 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