Parker Lewis 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.

Michael F Hernandez I love this movie. I first viewed the movie as a young child and never forgot it. Cornell and the cast were excellent. This is the kind of movie that stays with you forever much like the movie, "The Good Earth" by Mrs. Pear S. Buck.Savagery is the way of humanity. We are a savage species as we are the only species on Earth that kills just for the sake of killing. Every other organism kills out of necessity. This movie shows us at our most low. However, we as a species every once in a while rise above what our normal behavior dictates and we become something of legend. In the ocean of our humanity once in a while a few of us do sparkle.Michael

jimbo-53-186511 The setup for this film is probably one of the most basic that you are likely to come across; A group of men are on safari and are hunting elephants for their ivory. Along the way, they encounter a tribe and one of the group offends the natives by refusing to give a gift or 'trinket' to them and arrogantly presses on. The tribe of natives don't take this matter lying down and surround the safari hunters and start to kill them off one by one; they do, however, allow one man known simply as 'The Man' (portrayed by Cornel Wilde) to survive and give him a head start and begin hunting him.This is minimalist film making and it's all the more enjoyable for it. The plot is simple and the film moves at a brisk pace and never really loses momentum. After the first 15 minutes or so, there is very little dialogue, but it doesn't really matter that much as the tension and suspense in The Naked Prey more than compensates for the lack of dialogue. There also isn't much in the way of character development, but again this doesn't harm the film as the audience will automatically empathise with and connect to 'The Man' due to the plight that he finds himself in.Cornel Wilde (the protagonist) also directed this feature and I felt that his direction was pretty good; there were some lovely shots of the beautiful scenery. There were also some lovely shots of the various wildlife which inhabited the area (Wilde showed most of these scenes as 'cut scenes', the point of which still eludes me, but the photography was beautiful so it's not really a complaint).In summary, this is minimalist entertainment which makes the most of its relatively low budget by providing the viewer with a consistently engaging and tense thriller. The film really comes into its own when it's just 'The Man' against the group of tribal nativities and it turns into a classic 'cat and mouse' thriller which becomes a case of 'hunt or be hunted' for our protagonist. Whilst, I wouldn't go as far as saying that it was an 'edge of your seat thriller' it was still a decent film. If you are a fan of 'cat and mouse thrillers' then you won't be disappointed.

Linda_S This is one of the finest motion pictures ever undertaken by an actor who also directs and produces. Cornel Wilde is absolutely remarkable. The camera shots are so well done that Wilde was obviously paying attention when he was an actor only.I ADORE this film. It still causes all the emotions that I felt so many, many years ago.Acting, for such little dialog, is simply superb.What a scene stealer that little girl was, and such a beautiful child.Looking back over so many decades of film-going I have to say this is one tidy little film and really, for entertainment value and more, it is very hard to beat.AMAZING, in a word. Mel Gibson, good as he is, could have learned from Cornel Wilde.