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Savage Innocents, The (1959) Rank 5 Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Savage Innocents, The (1959) a score of 2.6900 out of 4

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DVD Times (Mike Sutton)

Itâ��s possible to find many faults in Nicholas Rayâ��s The Savage Innocents but you canâ��t deny itâ��s slightly lunatic courage â�� guts itâ��s got. In this respect, it resembles its director, one of the few American filmmakers who genuinely deserves ...read the complete Savage Innocents movie review at DVD Times (Mike Sutton)

Christian Spotlight on the Movies

This film about Eskimo/Inuit life features Anthony Quinn (a man of many faces) as the central character Inuk but uses real Eskimos or other Asians in several supporting roles. Considering the time it was made, it takes a very frank look at an ...read the complete Savage Innocents movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies

DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)

Nicholas Ray's epic 1959 film about Eskimo life was unfairly victimized on release, censored at the UK cinema, and neglected by both TV and home video for decades. The Savage Innocents continued Ray's fascination with alternative lifestyles â�� ...read the complete Savage Innocents movie review at DVDBeaver.com (Gary W. Tooze)

DVD Outsider

For a more sensitive modern audience, Nicholas Ray's 1959 The Savage Innocents may present a few problems. For a start, an animal gets killed in it, and in there pre-CGI days, it gets killed for real. The opening sequence, cut from the original ...read the complete Savage Innocents movie review at DVD Outsider

Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

The Savage Innocents is much more than just an appealing curio adventure drama as presented by the great Nicholas Ray ("Rebel Without A Cause"), it's a moving drama about how we should not judge a more primitive culture by Western civilzation's narrow ...read the complete Savage Innocents movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)

Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Leo Goldsmith)

The films of Nicholas Ray explore a great variety of subjects and milieux, from the insect-ridden swamps of Wind Across the Everglades, to the ancient Levant in King of Kings, to the dusty rodeo arenas of The Lusty Men, to the paved and manicured ...read the complete Savage Innocents movie review at Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Leo Goldsmith)