The Savage Innocents (1960)
- Directed by
- Nicholas Ray
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country
- United Kingdom, France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 45 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An Inuit man and his wife fight to survive in the brutal Arctic wilderness while facing conflicts with outsiders who threaten their traditional way of life.
harshcoldisolatedrawslow-burnvisually lushcontemplativegritty
What happens
The Savage Innocents is a 1960 adventure film directed and co-written by Nicholas Ray. Anthony Quinn and Yoko Tani star, with Lee Montague, Marco Guglielmi, Carlo Giustini, Anthony Chinn, and Michael Chow in supporting roles, alongside Peter O' Toole in an early film role. It was adapted from the novel Top of the World by Swiss writer Hans Ruesch. 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, Kayak scenes were shot in Ilulissat, Greenland, with interiors shot in Britain's Pinewood Studios and in Rome's Cinecittà studios. It was entered in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Two Women (1960)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.