Description:
Glamorous leading man turned idiosyncratic auteur, Cornel Wilde created a handful of gritty, violent explorations of the nature of man, in the sixties and seventies, 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 camerawork and unflinching savagery, The Naked Prey is both a propulsive, stripped-to-the-bone narrative and a meditation on the notion of civilization.
Special Features:
- New, restored digital transfers
- Audio commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince
- "John Colter's Escape", a 1913 written record of the trapper's flight
- Original soundtrack cues created by Wilde & Andrew Tracey
- Theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
- A 1970 interview with Wilde