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The Naked Prey

1966

Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde, Gert Van den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt ...

6.5

841

Adventure A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. 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 he is set loose, the hunters hot on his heels, beginning a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Robert Alden The New York Times	"A poor and tasteless motion-picture entertainment, redeemed somewhat by its authentic African setting and its effective use of tribal drums and native music"	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Moderately pretentious, though very well filmed"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There are all sorts of gruesome scenes to lend authenticity (...) But the film itself remains pure fantasy (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
Canada	Jim Tudor Screen Anarchy	"It is, by today’s standards, just another go-go-go action-every-few-minutes/dialogue lite spectacle (...) But there are indeed deeper layers of appreciation and observation"	POS
United States	Fernando F. Croce Slant	"Cornel Wilde deserves more attention (...) [It] is at its most affecting in the childlike scenes between the main character and a young native girl (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"A major influence on Mel Gibson's 'Apocalypto', 'The Naked Prey' has the brute force of great pulp"	POS

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