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Plot:
A white safari guide is captured along with his tourists by a Zulu tribe on account of violating their laws. They are all killed, except for the guide who is given the opportunity to run free and be ...( read more 
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MCT:May 7, 2008
Well done and unique at the time.
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MCT:February 10, 2008
I suspect The Naked Prey is Cornel Wilde's answer to a mid-life crisis. It was his way of saying, "Look at me! I'm the producer, the director and the star." He even co-wrote the musical score. Wilde, as a character credited simply as 'the Man', spends the vast majority of his screen time running around Africa clad only in a small loincloth. Okay, so he had a pretty good physique for a 50 year old man, but come on! No middle-aged white man is going to outrun, outsmart, and outlast a war party of Zulu tribesmen in a footrace across the Serengeti. The Naked Prey is not a horrible film, in fact it's downright entertaining. But let's be absolutely truthful about calling it for what it is. It is 96 minutes of pure, unadulterated machismo.
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MCT:February 2, 2008I love survival films! The ones were the characters are stranded in the middle of nowere and they have to find theyre way to civilization. The Naked Prey is one of the best examples of this type of film. I watched it blindly with out any prior knowledge of what it was really about. Its freaking great. Cornel Wilde gives a tour-de-force performance as the "man"
there are some seriously disturbing images in The Naked Prey. One man gets covered in red clay, then baked over a fire by a tribe of cannibals! Theres also an amazing scene involving natives going inside and out of an Elephants carcass!! Like a big wet drippy meat tent! And i think it was a real Elephant carcass. Theres quite alot of Mondo footage here too.
I dont know what this film was nominated for at the Oscars...i caught it on TCM's 29 days of Oscars. But its a real fucked up film. -
MCT:February 2, 2008
Quite the experience. A mishmash of 50's and 70's sensibilities. Wilde went to great lengths to make it realistic, down to killing real animals. Stripping man down to his primal survival instincts, the film is unique and worthwhile.
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MCT:January 24, 2008Really good adventure tale. A manhunt in primitive style where we see the effects of colonialism not just obviously but its effects overall on the contitnent and its changes on the people. The personal tragedy of the people is never one sided but is double-pronged to emphasize the humanity and the similarity of each man's tale in any form of struggle or fight.
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