The naked prey
(Blu-ray) 

Title from sell sheet.

Wide screen.

Special features: restored high definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; audio commentary from 2007 by film scholar Stephen Prince; "John Colter's escape," a 1913 written record of the traper's flight from Blackfoot Indians--which was the inspiration for "The naked prey"--read by actor Paul Giamatti; original soundtrack cues created by director Cornel Wilde and ehnomusicologist Andrew Tracey, along with a written statement by Tracey on the score; trailer; essay by film critic Michael Atkinson and a 1970 interview with Wilde.

Cornel Wilde, Gert Van Den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt.

In the early nineteenth century, after an ivory-hunting safari offends a group of South African hunters, the colonialists are captured and hideously tortured. A lone marksman is released, without clothes or weapons, to be hunted for sport, and he begins a harrowing journey through savanna and jungle back to a primitive state. It is both a propulsive, stripped-to-the-bone narrative and a meditation on the concept of civilization.

MPAA rating: R.

Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

BLU-RAY