The Savage Innocents
| The Savage Innocents | |
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The Rank Organization (United Kingdom) (United States)Paramount Pictures | |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Countries | Italy United Kingdom France |
| Language | English |
The Savage Innocents is a 1960
The film was an international co-production, with British, Italian and French interests involved; in the United States it was released by Paramount Pictures. The film was shot on-location in the Canadian Arctic, with interiors shot in Britain's Pinewood Studios and in Rome's Cinecittà studios. It was entered in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film's themes include Inuit survival in the extreme arctic wilderness, as well as their raw existence and struggle to maintain their lifestyle against encroaching civilization.
Plot
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Cast
- Inuk
- Yoko Tani as Asiak
- Nikki van der Zyl as Asiak's voice (uncredited)
- Peter O'Toole as the First Trooper
- Robert Rietti as the First Trooper's voice (uncredited)
- Carlo Giustini as the Second Trooper
- Lee Montague as Ittimargnek
- Marco Guglielmi as the Missionary
- Anna Wong as Hiko
- Kaida Horiuchi as Imina
- Anthony Chinn as Kiddok
- Michael Chow as Undik
- Marie Yang as Powtee
- Andy Ho as Anarvik
- Yvonne Shima as Lulik
- Francis de Wolff as Trader
Reception
Critical
Eugene Archer gave the film a mixed review in The New York Times upon its 1961 release: "Most of the qualities that have made Nicholas Ray one of America's most highly praised directors abroad while leaving him relatively unpopular and unknown at home are clearly apparent in 'The Savage Innocents.'" Describing the movie as "badly cut" and "a bitter drama," Archer nonetheless found that "Mr. Ray's highly individualistic preoccupation with moral tensions expresses itself in a series of unusually provocative scenes" and concluded that this "strange, disturbing drama will leave most of its viewers dissatisfied and some outraged, but few will remain indifferent."[2]
Box office
Kine Weekly called it a "money maker" at the British box office in 1960.[3]
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References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Savage Innocents". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ Billings, Josh (15 December 1960). "It's Britain 1, 2, 3 again in the 1960 box office stakes". Kine Weekly. p. 9.
- ^ Oliver Trager, Keys to the rain: the definitive Bob Dylan encyclopedia, Billboard Books, 2004, pp. 505–6.
