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Naked Prey (1965)
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by Paramount
Sales Rank: 4815
Price: $19.95
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Actor-turned-director Cornel Wilde (<I>The Best Years of Our Lives</I>) 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. <I>--Tom Keogh</I>
Viewer Reviews
This classic adventure movie tells the tale of a party of ivory hunters' fate after refusing to pay the local natives tribute, This is told in sometimes gruesome detail as each of the captives are put to torturous deaths until, lastly, Cornel Wilde is stripped naked and hunted down for sport. Wilde plays an excellent part of the solitary white man living from hour to hour by his wits while native warriors use all their skills to relentlessly hunt him down. This is one great movie!
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