Characters & Themes
Mean Dog Blues (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 108 mins · English
- Directed by
- Mel Stuart
- Starring
- Scatman Crothers, Kay Lenz, Edith Atwater, George Kennedy, David Lewis, Ian Wolfe
Prison camp #4 has claimed that no inmate has ever broken free, but Paul Ramsey, a country‑and‑western musician caught by circumstance, is determined to be the first. Sent to a Southern chain‑gang, the reluctant singer weighs his love of music against the brutal reality of hard‑law labor as he plots an escape.
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