Overrated

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent adaptation.

I watched The Naked Prey awhile ago and I felt the tribe didn't give three of the party any real chance to escape. Really, one of them was plastered in clay and roasted alive...how could he escape? Another was feathered and tarred, and chased by the tribe and killed. He didn't have a chance!Another was tied up on the ground and faced a venomous snake! No way could he get out.Only Cornel Wilde had a hint of a chance to escape. Maybe the tribes folk looked upon him with more compassion relatively speaking. I would love to have seen the behind-the-scenes of The Naked Prey and how the American film crew interacted with the Rhodesian locals.

Way back in 1932---around the same time that Director Ernest B. Schoedsack was involved in production of the original classic "King Kong"----he also made another classic film entitled "The Most Dangerous Game (MDG)." Based on a famous story by Richard Connell, MDG tells the tale of a megalomaniac hunter who lives on a remote island. Ships would regularly end up wrecked on reefs near the island. Their passengers and crew would be rescued by our hunter----enjoy his sophisticated hospitality for a time---and then end up as prey as our crazy hunter indulges in his very perverse "sport." MDG starred a very young Joel McCrea and two members of the original "King Kong" cast----Fay (I never met a scream that I didn't like!) Wray and Robert Armstrong. At 63 minutes in length, MDG is the model of an exciting and compact thriller film.Since the basic idea of someone being forced into the totally unexpected role of an innocent victim hunted down with the intention of becoming another's trophy kill is pretty powerful-----it has been remade into numerous films ("Game of Death," "Run for the Sun," etc.).The plot device is essentially the same one that Cornel Wilde employed in his variation on MDG entitled "The Naked Prey" released some 34 years after the original film. Wilde makes his movie interesting by having a big game hunter becoming the hunted, and changing the megalomaniac hunter into a band of African tribesmen determined to chase down the Wilde character and do him in.Wilde also indulges his film with numerous symbolic devices and sub-plot lines---but remains true to the basic premise of MDG. Survival is a battle of wits between the hunter(s) and the hunted, and only the most resourceful of preys can make it alive to the end of the tale.Viewers who like "The Naked Prey" ought to seek out MDG to recognize yet again the practice often used by Warner Brothers in the 1930s: if the original film tells a good story, it is worth remaking----and remaking----and remaking......

A brilliant variation on Schoedsack /Cooper's thirties horror movie and Samuel Fuller's western,"the naked prey" is a dazzling movie,which should be on everyone's must see list.Directed by Cornel Wilde who was often the romantic male lead ("Forever Amber" "Leave her to Heaven" )of glorious melodrama,is here the naked prey,pursued by a tribe of natives in the wild landscapes of Africa where the nature itself is particularly cruel;it is really a fight for survival everywhere.And after all,the hero gets what he deserves:who can forget the slaughter of the elephants at the beginning of the story?Splendid cinematography,one of the best I have ever seen.Great use of the wide screen."Apocalypto" the overrated Gibson's work stole severalscenes from this film:-the arrow,the death of one of the pursuers ,the chase....-the storming of the village where the inhabitants are enslaved.Far from clichés,you and me,little boy,we made a great work!

It was interesting to speculate on the differences in this film from 1966, to one made in modern times (by anyone other than Mel Gibson, who is, shall we say, outside the Hollywood mainstream) It is refreshing to see savage tribes portrayed unapologetically as savage tribes. (Contrast with Dances With Wolves) Also, unthinkable in a more modern film was the matter-of-fact shooting of elephants captured on film. The PETA folks would be outraged.The acting was mostly superb, from Cornel Wilde, and also the men and women playing the African natives. (From their names in the credits, many of them, of course, WERE African natives, but were playing roles from a century in the past) It's worth checking out.