Cornel Wilde
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The Naked Prey: Directed by Cornel Wilde. With Cornel Wilde, Gert van den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt. During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with the natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen.
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- Adventure, Drama, Thriller
- Cornel Wilde
- 1966-02-17
The Naked Prey is a 1965 American adventure film [3] directed and co-produced by Cornel Wilde, who also stars in the lead role. Set in the South African veldt, the film's plot centers around a safari guide trying to survive in the veldt's harsh environment, while trying to avoid death at the hands of vengeful African warriors.
In the bush country of South Africa in the late 19th century, chauvinistic hunter Gert vanDen Bergh calculatedly offends a local tribal chief.
In the 19th century, a white hunter is preparing to lead a safari into the South African jungle. Through the rudeness of the hunter's employer, the natives are stirred to anger and revenge, and as a result, he and his party are attacked and brutally tortured to death by the tribesmen.
- Cornel Wilde, Bert Batt, Howard Rennie
- Cornel Wilde
The Naked Prey. A safari guide (Cornel Wilde) cautions the hunting party he is leading to respect the African natives they encounter. Instead of heeding this advice, one of the party actively...
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- Cornel Wilde
- Cornel Wilde
- Adventure
The Naked Prey. Cornel Wilde is Man, the great white hunter whose safari is wiped out by angry tribesmen. Impressed with his bravery, they give him a "lion's chance" to...
Glamorous leading man turned idiosyncratic auteur Cornel Wilde created in the 1960s and ’70s a handful of gritty, violent explorations of the nature of man, none more memorable than The Naked Prey. In the early nineteenth century, after an ivory-hunting safari offends a group of South African hunters, the colonialists are captured and ...
