Mean Dog Blues is a 1978 American drama film directed by Mel Stuart.

[1] It stars Gregg Henry and Kay Lenz.

[2] 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.