The naked prey
(DVD)

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.

Special features include optional audio commentary by Stephen Prince, original soundtrack cues, theatrical trailer, "John Colter's escape", a 1913 record of a flight from Blackfoot Indians read by Paul Giamatti, an essay by Michael Atkinson and a print interview with Wilde.

Director of photography, H.A.R. Thomson ; film editor, Roger Cherrill ; production supervisor, Basil Keys ; camera operator, Ray Sturgess ; music editor, Archie Ludski.

Cornel Wilde, Gert Van Der Berg, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt, Bella Randles.

Filmed entirely in Africa.

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 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 camera work and the unflinching depiction of savagery, The Naked Prey is both a propulsive, stripped-to-the-bone narrative and a meditation on the notion of civilization. - Container.

DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation, enhanced for 16:9 TVs; Dolby digital mono., NTSC.