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Directed by | Nicholas Ray |
Screenplay by | Nicholas Ray Hans Rüesch (adaptation) Franco Solinas (adaptation) |
Based on | Top of the World by Hans Rüesch |
Produced by | Maleno Malenotti |
Starring | Anthony Quinn Yoko Tani |
Cinematography | Peter Hennessy Aldo Tonti |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma Ralph Kemplen Jolanda Benvenuti |
Music by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
Production companies | Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma (as Gray Film-Pathé) Appia Films Ltd. (as Appia Film) Gray Films Magic Film |
Distributed by | The Rank Organization (United Kingdom) Paramount Pictures (United States) |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Countries | Italy United Kingdom France |
Language | English |
The Savage Innocents is a 1960 adventure film directed and co-written by Nicholas Ray. Anthony Quinn and Yoko Tani star, with Lee Montague, Marco Guglielmi, Carlo Giustini, Anthony Chinn, and Michael Chow in supporting roles, alongside Peter O' Toole in an early film role. It was adapted from the novel Top of the World by Swiss writer Hans Rüesch.
The film was an international co-production, with British, Italian and French interests involved; in the United States it was released by Paramount Pictures. The film was shot on-location in the Canadian Arctic, with interiors shot in Britain's Pinewood Studios and in Rome's Cinecittà studios. It was entered in the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film's themes include Inuit survival in the extreme arctic wilderness, as well as their raw existence and struggle to maintain their lifestyle against encroaching civilization.