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Truly a movie that could not easily be made today. The plot is simple; the man financing an African ivory safari (Gert Van den Bergh) offends a tribe by not paying them a tribute gift against the advice of his own guide (Cornell Wilde). The tribe takes them prisoner back to their village and kills all except Wilde in various imaginative and gruesome ways for the amusement of the tribe. Presumably because he wanted to pay the tribute, Wilde is given a sporting chance; he's stripped naked, and given a head start before several of the men begin to hunt him down and kill him like an animal. The first pursuer misses Wilde with a spear, which Wilde uses to kill that pursuer and take his footwear and some of his equipment. Wilde not only has to elude his pursuers, he has to cope with his own thirst and hunger at the same time. When he kills a deer, a lion steals it from him. Throughout the movie there are scenes of animals pursuing and killing each other. One animal scene even mirrors the plot when a baboon being stalked by a cheetah survives by being willing to fight back. Even the plant life is shown as being inhospitable to being eaten. There are a few plot holes; early in the movie the financier of the safari mentions to Wilde that next time he'd like to combine hunting for ivory with the slave trade. This is inconsistent with the times (around 1850) since by then, the slave trade but not slavery itself had come to an end. The village where the safari party is taken to is filled with thin people except for the village chief, who is enormously fat, like Jabba the Hut. How'd a guy like that get to be chief? It probably takes half the village resources to maintain his fatness. The head pursuer (Ken Campu) was a tall, fit looking guy who looked like he could have easily killed the chief and taken over the village. The other plot hole occurs when Wilde starts a fire in order to drive his pursuers away when they were at most a minute behind him. Where did he get the materials to start a fire so quickly? Did one of the pursuers he killed have firestarting materials? Those plot holes aside, the movie was beautifully photographed and well acted by all. The Africans were not stereotypical villains; they showed true sorrow and caring when one of them was killed or injured. They were not superhuman; they also need to catch their breath, eat and drink. Spoiler alert! Don't read any further if you haven't seen the movie! At the end, when Wilde's character is about to be rescued, he turns and salutes the head pursuer, who returns the salute. There is a similar scene in "Jeremiah Johnson" when an indian who's tribe has been relentlessly pursuing Johnson gives him a similar salute as if to say "I'm calling an end to the pursuit". Unlike many movies today, you cannot add a disclaimer saying that "no animals were harmed in the making of this movie". Many animals were indeed harmed, from a small toad or frog being eaten by a larger one to several elephants being shot and disemboweled.My criticisms? I'd have liked some subtitles so I could've have known what the pursuers were saying. For example, early in the chase, it appears like the head pursuer was ordering some of his men to go this way and others to go that way. Was he unsure which way Wilde had gone, or was he trying to trap Wilde between two groups of pursuers? Toward the end of the movie, Wilde befriends a young girl who's village was destroyed by slave traders. After walking with Wilde for a while and sharing songs, she decides she wants to go back. Go back to what? Her village was burned and most everyone was taken as slaves or killed outright! Even Wilde shakes his head and murmurs "I hope you'll be all right," but he doesn't try and stop her. Previous reviewers have found racism in this movie because some of the Africans are portrayed as vicious savages taking pleasure in gruesome killing. Why should Africans be portrayed any different from Europeans? The history of all humans is filled with examples of cruelty as entertainment, regardless of race. Besides, tribal and religious warfare with appalling cruelty still goes on in Africa. Reviewers have also found it strange that a white man out of his element is able to survive and in some cases turn the tables on some of his African pursuers. In this movie, the white man is not out of his element. He's a professional safari guide. Any north woods hunting guide is probably fitter and more skilled at survival than local hunters. Speaking of fitness, Cornell Wilde looks in great shape for a man of 53. I can only think of a few Hollywood actors who could have met the physical qualifications of this role in their 50s.

A brilliant variation on Schoedsack /Cooper's thirties horror movie and Samuel Fuller's western,"the naked prey" is a dazzling movie,which should be on everyone's must see list.Directed by Cornel Wilde who was often the romantic male lead ("Forever Amber" "Leave her to Heaven" )of glorious melodrama,is here the naked prey,pursued by a tribe of natives in the wild landscapes of Africa where the nature itself is particularly cruel;it is really a fight for survival everywhere.And after all,the hero gets what he deserves:who can forget the slaughter of the elephants at the beginning of the story?Splendid cinematography,one of the best I have ever seen.Great use of the wide screen."Apocalypto" the overrated Gibson's work stole severalscenes from this film:-the arrow,the death of one of the pursuers ,the chase....-the storming of the village where the inhabitants are enslaved.Far from clichés,you and me,little boy,we made a great work!

I'll acknowledge that in 1966 it was pretty daring to offer this movie to audiences used to watching Doris Day movies. But it doesn't pass the sniff test and ends up being just another ooga-booga African demonization flick pretty much like those made in the previous decades. The narrative is loaded with offenses, faults, and cop-outs as putrid as anything the thirties offered. They should have hired an ethnographer because this is still awfully silly.We only get savages or noble savages in African movies, never anything more complex, never anything in the middle. Here we get "savages" in a thinly veiled 'study' of the white mans fear of the brutality of black culture. Cooking a human mudman? Chasing a human chicken? The snake face bite? How many times has this tribe needed these tricks that they have such an assortment of bizarre tactics to deploy at a moments notice? The hunt. The natives are surprised when the they find the first warrior dead? Well what happened the previous times they ran a live quarry against a slowly released team of hunters? Killing the first guy is the only option the prey has.This is an absurd movie. Want to watch a great wordless movie, just rent Koyaanisqatsi.

This is a very exciting little film that was produced, directed and starred Cornel Wilde! Now he never was a huge name in Hollywood, but Wilde had been around since the 1940s and out of nowhere he appears in this great action-suspense film. The fact that they would not only allow him to control every aspect of the film AND that Wilde still had a very nice figure even though he was nearly 50 came as a bit of a surprise to me.The film is in many ways like Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO and I am sure that THE NAKED PREY must have inspired the writers of this recent film as the plots are so very similar. Both involve a group being taken prisoner and brutally killed one by one. Both have the hero being given a minuscule chance when the savages let him go to pursue as sport! And both consist of this man running for his life but also managing to take out his attackers one at a time in his long, long run towards freedom. In fact, I strongly recommend you watch them both, as they are both exceptional films.In this case, however, the film is not set in Central America but the African plains. Wilde and his party are taken prisoner for insulting a local tribe of meanies and Wilde is the only one left when the tribesmen decide to make sport of him. By the way, the way that the savage tribe killed off the members of the expedition was pretty shocking for 1966--you just have to see it to know what I mean (especially the clay guy).Exciting writing, acting and direction--Wilde definitely did a great job here--too bad he didn't get that many more opportunities to produce and direct.