Cornel Wilde
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A police lieutenant (Cornel Wilde) is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte, later most famously known as playing Don Barzini in "The Godfather") because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He then goes after Brown's girlfriend who despises him, for information instead, with devastating results.
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A noir classic about a police lieutenant who comes under pressure from a gang headed by a vicious thug. He is helped by the gangster's wife, jealous at her husband's affair with another woman, who supplies him with information to help him close the net on his foe. "*Where the usual noir takes place in a nightmare world, this one seems to inhabit a dream: there's no longer fear in the images, but rather a distanced, idealized beauty.*" - Dave Kehr,...
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When a safari hunting ivory offends an African tribe, they are captured and tortured. One man is released without weapons or clothing, to be hunted in a life or death race.
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...