The Savage Innocents

The Savage Innocents
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)
Release date	May 1960 (1960-05)
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.