"The Naked Prey" - Awesome survival, knife movie

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I just saw this 1966 African adventure film, and all that need to be said is WOW!

This safari guide in the 1800s and his boorish European clients are attacked by vengeful natives. They torture and kill the clients in horrific ways but gives the safari guide a fighting chance on account of his earlier deeds.

The natives strip him of all his clothes and even shoes and chase him all over the southern African bush. The guide slowly finishes his pursuers off while displaying termendous cunning, fieldcraft, hunting and survival skills. He also makes good use of a big knife he captured from the natives.

It's like a survival instructions video with a storyline!
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I think I have seen parts of this movie. It was pretty entertaining, better than most of the stuff on tv lately.
 
I really like this movie. Don’t know how many times I’ve seen it, and I still watch it every time it comes on. Cornel Wilde, the runner, also directed it. He was 50 or 51 years old at the time.

I read somewhere that one of the pusuers got a little carried away and actually threw his spear at Cornel Wilde during one of the chase scenes, and it stuck in the ground next to Mr. Wilde. They asked the guy not to do that again, but they left it in the movie.

Anyone who hasn’t seen this movie is for a treat. Watch for it on American Movie Classics or Turner Classic Movies. (Does raw snake taste like raw chicken??)


 
"Naked Prey" is one of my favorite movies! I first saw it when I was a kid and it's till great today!

Vince

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FYI, it's on again Tuesday 7/3 at 11:00 PM on American Movie Classics (TW Cable/NYC). Set those VCRs.
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I agree. Great film. Seen it several times over the years since I was a kid.

I'm surprised that it hasn't been remade of late, but then again, it's probably not politically correct.
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I agree with the foregoing comments. I think it's a great illustration of how not to behave when visiting other people's lands. I'd like to show it to all American tourists before they go abroad! We'd probably have a better image in other countries if we always treated the locals with appropriate respect.

DPD.
 
The stuff I liked the most about this movie was all the low-tech gear. Of course, it was 1800's Africa, so you wouldn't expect to see much except low-tech. But the bush knives, bows and spears, native tools used for millenia and still in use to some degree, show that you don't NEED all the latest whiz-bang stuff to "survive". A great "back-to-basics" sort of movie. But you just KNOW that guy was overjoyed to see those Brits with their Martini-Henry's at the end of the movie. :~} Technology does have it's place.
 
Great flick!
It's been getting a lot of airplay recently on one of Turner's Classic movie channels. I've seen it several times and even now while I'm channel-surfing and run across it, I'll sit thru it to the end.:D
 
It's officially on my favorite movie lists now. A true classic.

All that movie needed was a great score, a few aero-panoramic views of Africa ala "Out of Africa" and it would be perfect.

I would love to see a modern remake.
 
I have never posted in this forum before because I have no Wilderness or Survival Skills, but I do know this movie. I was working as an usher in a movie theater when this came out and I must have seen it 50 times on the Big Screen. I love this movie, but my favorite part is one scene where he's starving and he eats this slug or something and in the background you can see a bus drive by. I don't know if you can see it on a TV screen, but you could sure see it on a movie screen and whenever that scene came up all of the ushers used to point their flashlights at the screen and yell out, "Hey Dummy drop the slug and grab that $#@^&# bus."

Now grabbing a bus or a cab is something I know about in the jungle I live in. ;)
 
It sounds like a great movie, but none of the video rental places near us have it. Plus, we don't have cable TV (I know, it's almost un-American :)). Any ideas on where I can find it? Thanks.

- Mark
 
I don't know how many times I've seen this movie. If you havn't had the chance. Check the odd cable channels on Sat. afternoons.(Always seems to be on one of them.)
At first it used to bug me but now it's grown on me.(Like a jungle fungus.):D
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PhiL,
That was great. I will need to look for that scene!

What did the audiance do?:cool:
 
Originally posted by Kodiak PA

What did the audiance do?:cool:
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Greg, this was in Brooklyn so after that scene they basically looked at the rest of the movie as a comedy. People would yell out survival tips that you just don't see posted here. ;)
 
Originally posted by Mark J
It sounds like a great movie, but none of the video rental places near us have it. Plus, we don't have cable TV (I know, it's almost un-American :)). Any ideas on where I can find it? Thanks.

- Mark
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I ordered mine through Amazon.com. The Video I'm Looking for is 300Spartans. That would go great with my videos Sparticus,Braveheart, the Crossing, Last of the Mohicans, and Patriot!!
 
What I really liked were the actors. Especially the guys who played the natives. Those guys were good. The last thing you want in a movie like this is nonauthentic looking natives.

At first I thought they got real guys like that bushmen movie "The Gods Must be Crazy." But then you see the credits, and they have names like Joe, with some Scottish surname. :D
 
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