#415: WILDE, Cornel: The Naked Prey (1966)
WILDE, Cornel (United States)
The Naked Prey [1966]
Spine #415
DVD
DVD
Glamorous leading man turned idiosyncratic auteur Cornel Wilde created in the sixties and seventies a handful of gritty, violent explorations of the nature of man, 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 camera work and the unflinching depiction of savagery, The Naked Prey is both a propulsive, stripped-to-the-bone narrative and a meditation on the notion of civilization.
96 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
2:35:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2007
Director/Writers
Written by Clint Johnston and Don Peters.
Cornel Wilde was 54 when he directed The Naked Prey.
The Film
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Thirty-two page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and a 1970 interview with Wilde.
Commentary
By film scholar Stephen Prince.
John Colter’s Escape
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Thirty-two page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and a 1970 interview with Wilde.
Commentary
By film scholar Stephen Prince.
John Colter’s Escape
A 1913 record of the trapper’s flight from Blackfoot Indians — which was the inspiration for The Naked Prey — read by Paul Giamatti.
Original soundtrack cues
Original soundtrack cues
Created by director Wilde and ethnomusicologist Andrew Tracey, along with a written statement by Tracey.
Theatrical trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
Theatrical trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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