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

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)

Trailer

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