DVD 96 IMDB 7.7

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Adventure

Cornel Wilde	The Man
Ken Gampu	Leader of the warriors
Gert Van den Bergh	Man #2
Patrick Mynhardt	Safari overseer
Bella Randles	Little girl
Morrison Gampu	Tribe leader
Sandy Nkomo	Warrior
Eric Mcanyana	Warrior
John Marcus	Warrior
Richard Mashiya	Warrior
Franklyn Mdhluli	Warrior

Director	Cornel Wilde
Producer	Sven Persson; Cornel Wilde
Writer	Clint Johnston; Don Peters

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.