The Savage Innocents

1960

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 2140 2.1K

harpoon inuit polar bear walrus arctic polar circle region snow

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Plot summary

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

Director

Nicholas Ray Photo
Nicholas Ray

Top cast

Peter O'Toole Photo
Peter O'Toole as First Trooper
Francis De Wolff Photo
Francis De Wolff as Trading Post Proprietor
Lee Montague Photo
Lee Montague as Ittimargnek
Anthony Chinn Photo
Anthony Chinn as Kiddok
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789.95 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
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1.66 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

It is impossible not to cringe when you

It is impossible not to cringe when you see Anthony Quinn playing an Eskimo (now referred to as Inuit or with specific tribal affiliations) and the assorted supporting actors come from a range of Asian cultures (with Yoko Tani excellent as Quinn/Inuk's wife). Setting this aside - and also setting aside the condescending view of indigenous people as less civilized - is difficult, but persisting with the movie does allow for some rewards. In fact, contact with the white man reveals them to be more decadent, foul, and unwilling to understand the (stereotypically noble) "savages" who eat raw meat, wife-swap, and occasionally kill each other. Director Nick Ray heightens the emotional interpersonal drama between the two main characters and their surrounding sparse social network and uses (probably stock footage of) arctic animals along with trained seals and a polar bear for counterpoint. The whole thing is so strange - and the characters speak in a kind of pidgin English that heightens this strangeness - that the viewer is quickly absorbed into an entirely different world. It is just too unfortunate that the rampant stereotyping of the time infects everything.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

It's weird, possibly racist, and terrifically uneven but

It's weird, possibly racist, and terrifically uneven but I kind of like it's kooky imperfection.
Reviewed by Matthew D 3 / 10

Apparently Inuits are a race of giggling psychopaths

Apparently Inuits are a race of giggling psychopaths that don't know which way is up or that babies are born without teeth. Makes one wonder how the race lasted so long being so damn stupid. Somehow everyone thinks this movie does a brilliant job in eliciting sympathy for Inuits and their culture despite each portrayal alternating between cartoonish stupidity and unbridled insanity. The only explanation I can think of is that Nicholas Ray directed it and this is the old Hitchcock/Allen/Tarantino effect; the assumption that if some of a director's output is good, then every dump he takes must be soild gold. Sadly, reality doesn't work that way. Yes, Ray did direct 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Johnny Guitar', and 'Run for Cover', but all those great movies don't make 'The Savage Innocents' not bad. It was bad, it is bad and will always be bad and not even Nicholas Ray having co-directed 'On Dangerous Ground' is going to change that. It's a fact we're all just going to have to live with.
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