The Naked Prey (Criterion DVD) USED

Glamorous leading man turned idiosyncratic auteur Cornel Wilde created a handful of gritty, violent explorations of the nature of man in the sixties and seventies, none more memorable than The Naked Prey. In the late 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 and back to a primitive state. Distinguished by widescreen camerawork and unflinching savagery, The Naked Prey is both a propulsive, stripped-to-the-bone narrative and a meditation on the notion of civilization. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer Audio commentary by film scholar Stephen Prince John Colter s Escape, a 1913 written record of the trapper s flight from Blackfoot Indians which was the inspiration for The Na