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