The Savage Innocents
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Movie Reviews of The Savage Innocents
Movie Review: my worst purchase
Summary: 1 Stars
It only has one star, only because I have to fill in something, otherwise it would not have any. The DVD arrived with a spanish label, not the English one shown. When I contacted the seller he said it would show in English also. Then I discovered that it doesn't play on a normal DVD player. It only plays on an "all region" player, but since I've never heard of an "all region" player, I never suspected that it wouldn't play on mine. When I contacted the seller about this he basically said "too bad, it was listed that way" and he wouldn't take it back. I am extremely disappointed in this purchase - and am powerless to do anything but write a bad review.Movie Review: NICHOLAS RAY, OPUS 18
Summary: 4 Stars
**** 1960. Based on Hans Ruesch's Top of World, THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS was written and directed by Nicholas Ray. Inuk, an Eskimo, accidentally kills a priest ignorant of the ancient traditions. Some years later, Inuk is arrested by a policeman but soon saves his life. A movie I saw some 35 years ago and that I never forgot so I didn't hesitate much to order this zone 2 DVD from Spain. Only filmographies and posters as bonus features. The copy, as though not perfect, respects the film format and is of above average quality. If you're interested in the filmography of Nicholas Ray, you surely already have this movie in your library as most of Ray's themes are present here. The arctic icefield is a place, like the desert of Bitter Victory, where Man can reveal himself and where the laws and morals of our modern civilizations appear in their vacuity. Highly recommended. Movie Review: Waiting for this movie to be released to general public for YEARS
Summary: 5 Stars
My family has been waiting for this movie to be released for many years, and now it still has not been released in the format for the United States, this is one of the best movies Anthony Quinn and Peter O'Toole have performed in and we await the release in US Format so that we can obtain it. We hope that this will happen soon.
Movie Review: Please Re-Release this Brilliant Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
It has been many years since I saw this movie but it has been on my mind as a very modern film. It was released during a time when even the American Indians had yet to have a movie that portrayed them with sympathy. Yet, here was a film showing the native Inuit peoples (perhaps the first native Americans as they migrated from Asia) in a very realistic and sympathetic manner. I remember most, the values of the dominant culture in the film which is that of so called "Eskimos". I noticed that the values were the same as in most cultures; a reverence for family, hospitality, and the need to survive in a society. The differences between the Inuit people, as portrayed in the film, and those of the European Americans (Canadian) were not diffences in values, but rather differences in how those values were expressed. Hospitality is expressed by lending a visitor your wife. Anthony Quinn's caracter explains this succinctly by saying "you lend a friend your dogs, they come back hurt; you lend a friend your sled, it comes back broken; but you lend a friend your wife, she is fine, she is returned just like you left her." This quote is not verbatim, because it has been many years and I cannot obtain a copy of this movie to verify.
The primary conflict of the movie comes when a priest refuses to sleep with Quinn's wife (despite her covering herself with bear fat). This insult results in Quinn's accidental killing the priest. The value of family is expressed by the fact that Quinn's mother-in-law is left for the polar bears to eat (at her request) when she can no longer be a productive member of the family when her teeth are no longer able to chew fur to produce clothing.
Perhaps my review provides a darkness which is not present in the actual movie. The movie itself is a beautiful story of a man, his wife, their child, and others trying to survive in the bleak North. The cinematography is awsomely shot in color, with white being the primary color on the palette, but .. oh, the contrasts!!
When it was released, it was promoted as an adventure movie, but it is more than that. It is a movie that describes in intimate detail the survival of a family against the odds of nature and an even more sinister force, that of the white man.
While it may be true that much of the movie is flawed as to historical accuracy, the fact that it has not been released to DVD, is a loss to the home video audience and should be corrected.
Movie Review: Good adventure film, with unusual casting
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie, based on a book called "Top of the World" by author Hans Ruesch, is a very entertaining adventure set among the Eskimos. Set during the time that western ways were encroaching into the Eskimos natural habitat, and spanning several generations, it's about a native hunter, played by Anthony Quinn (!), who gets into trouble with the law, and becomes a fugitive, basically out of his ignorance of western customs (he killed a white man when he offended him by rejecting an invitation to lie in bed with his wife). Directd by the well regarded Nicholas Ray, this movie is not terribly known, but until a few years ago, it was shown with some regularity on television (at least in my country). Comment aside: how many characters of different ethnic backgrounds Quinn played during his long career?.
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