The Naked Prey - Criterion Collection
by Cornel Wilde
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Actor: Cornel WildeDirector: Cornel Wilde
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Restored, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection
Movie Reviews of The Naked Prey - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: I've waited years for it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw Naked Prey when it was initially released to the theaters, but not since. That is, until I discovered Criterion had released a dvd. I ran up the isle to grab it. What a film! Teriffic acting, photography, music. And a story line that can't be beat.
It had been over forty years since my first and only viewing, yet I retained the images and initial emotions all these years.
Get a copy of the Naked Prey. It is unforgetable.
Summary of The Naked Prey - Criterion Collection
Glamorous leading man turned idiosyncratic auteur Cornel Wilde created a handful of gritty violent explorations of the nature of man in the sixties and seventies none more memorable than The Naked Prey. In the early nineteenth century after an ivory-hunting safari offends an African tribe the colonialists are captured and hideously tortured. Only Wilde's marksman is released without clothes or weapons to be hunted for sport and he embarks on a harrowing journey through savanna and jungle back to a primitive state. Distinguished by vivid widescreen camerawork and unflinching savagery The Naked Prey is both a propulsive stripped-to-the-bone narrative and a meditation on the notion of civilization.System Requirements:LENGTH: 96 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/CULT MOVIES Rating:?NR UPC:?715515027328 Manufacturer No:?CC1736DDVDActor-turned-director Cornel Wilde (The Best Years of Our Lives) released this fascinating fever dream of a thriller in 1966, basing its terrifying story on the legendary escape of trapper John Colter from Blackfoot Indians. Wilde plays a laconic, big-game hunter (the script refers to him only as "Man") managing an ivory-gathering safari for an arrogant loudmouth who refuses to pay tribute to a local chief. The chief's tribe takes exception to this slight, capturing the hunters and subjecting them to sundry, nightmarish tortures. (The worst, arguably, is the baking of one poor fellow inside a head-to-toe clay suit.) Wilde's character is stripped bare and given a bit of a lead before being pursued by a party of spear-wielding men. For the next few days, the Man lives by his wits in the most violent surroundings, never far from the predator-prey cycle in the animal kingdom and even saving a boy from an attack by slave-traders on his village. Horrifying as the Man's journey becomes, there is something redemptive about Wilde's jaded character going back to nature in a radical fashion. Wilde the filmmaker expertly mingles stock footage of jungle beasts with his own bold images of a savage Eden, though nothing gets under one's skin quite like some of those torture scenes. --Tom Keogh
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