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The naked prey /

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: CC1736D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 415.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2007]Edition: Special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

ISBN:

9781604650099
1604650095

Uniform titles:

Naked prey (Motion picture)

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

791.43/72 22

LOC classification:

PN1997.A2 C75 2007 v.415

Other classification:

AP 51400

Online resources:

Connect to IMDb information for this film

Contents:

Beasts -- Safari -- Custom -- Sport -- Consequence -- Approval -- Swift -- Survival -- Droplets -- Harmony -- Hunters -- Cunning -- Flames -- Savanna -- Opposites -- Fortune -- Trade -- Aid -- Two -- Targets -- Bars.

Production credits:

Director of photography, H.A.R. Thomson ; film editor, Roger Cherrill ; production supervisor, Basil Keys ; camera operator, Ray Sturgess ; music editor, Archie Ludski ; music, Edwin Astley.

Cast: Cornel Wilde, Gert van der Berg [that is, Gert van den Berg], Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt, Bella Randles.Summary: When a safari group hunting ivory insults an African tribe, they're captured and tortured. The last surviving member is given "the lion's chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors. Naked and weaponless, the man is set loose with the hunters hot on his heels, beginning a life-or-death hunt through Africa. Includes essay booklet; interviews; and moreSummary: 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. - Container.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03379 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050308993

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1965.

Wide screen (2:35:1).

Special features include optional audio commentary by Stephen Prince, original soundtrack cues, theatrical trailer, "John Colter's escape", a 1913 record of a flight from Blackfoot Indians read by Paul Giamatti, an essay by Michael Atkinson and a print interview with Wilde.

Filmed entirely in Africa.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation, enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby digital mono., NTSC.

In English, with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

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