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The Savage Innocents ()

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An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.
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Inuk
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Asiak
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First Trooper
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Second Trooper
Anna May Wong ...
Hiko
Kaida Horiuchi ...
Imina
Marco Guglielmi ...
Missionary
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Ittimargnek
Marie Yang ...
Powtee
Andy Ho ...
Anarvik (as Andi Ho)
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Kiddok (as Anthony Chin)
Yvonne Shima ...
Lulik
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Trading Post Proprietor
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Undik
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Pilot
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Commentarist
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Missionary (uncredited) (voice)
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Asiak (uncredited) (voice)

Directed by

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Nicholas Ray

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Hans Ruesch ... (adaptation) &
Franco Solinas ... (adaptation) &
Baccio Bandini ... (adaptation)
 
Hans Ruesch ... (novel "Top of the World")
 
Nicholas Ray ... (screenplay)

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René Bezard ... producer (uncredited)
René Chevrier ... producer (uncredited)
Louis Dolivet ... producer (uncredited)
Joseph Janni ... co-producer
Maleno Malenotti ... producer
Adrien Remaugé ... producer (uncredited)
Serge Silberman ... producer (uncredited)

Music by

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Angelo Francesco Lavagnino ... (as A.F. Lavagnino)

Cinematography by

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Peter Hennessy
Aldo Tonti

Editing by

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Jolanda Benvenuti
Eraldo Da Roma
Ralph Kemplen

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Donald M. Ashton ... (as Don Ashton)
Dario Cecchi

Set Decoration by

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Ted Clements ... (as Edward Clements)

Costume Design by

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Vittorio Nino Novarese ... (uncredited)

Makeup Department

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Antonio Marini ... makeup artist
Stella Rivers ... hair stylist
Geoffrey Rodway ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Giovanni A. Giurgola ... production supervisor (as Giovanni Giurgola)
Bianca Lattuada ... production manager
Douglas Peirce ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Baccio Bandini ... second unit director
Jacques Giraldeau ... assistant director: second unit
Tom Pevsner ... assistant director
Joe Marks ... second assistant director (uncredited)
David Tringham ... second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department

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Ted Clements ... set dresser (as Edward Clements)
Olga Lehmann ... storyboard artist (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Geoffrey Daniels ... sound recordist
Claudio Maielli ... sound
Winston Ryder ... dialogue editor

Camera and Electrical Department

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Jack Atcheler ... camera operator
Alan Bryce ... camera operator: second unit (as Allan Bryce)
Patrick Carey ... director of photography: second unit (as Paddy Carey)
Umberto Grassia ... key grip
Riccardo Pallottini ... director of photography: second unit
Giovanni Scarpellini ... director of photography: second unit
Albert Clarke ... still photographer (uncredited)
Harry Gillard ... still photographer (uncredited)
Tony Spratling ... focus puller (uncredited)

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Wanda Antonelli ... tailor

Music Department

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Muir Mathieson ... conductor

Script and Continuity Department

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Penny Daniels ... continuity

Additional Crew

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John L. Hargreaves ... production assistant
Ermete Paolucci ... production secretary
Douglas Wilkinson ... arctic consultant (as Douglas E. Wilkinson)
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Storyline

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Taglines A moving story of the clash between the primitive Polar world and modern civilisation. [Video] See more »
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Also Known As
  • Ombre bianche (Italy)
  • Les dents du diable (France)
  • Top of the World (United States)
  • Savage Innecents (India, English title)
  • Les dents del diable (Spain, Catalan title)
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  • 110 min
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Did You Know?

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Trivia It was seeing this film, as an upcoming singer/songwriter, that inspired the young Bob Dylan to write the song "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)." See more »
Goofs After giving the bear the baited food, Inuk initially chases it empty handed, then appears with a spear. See more »
Movie Connections Referenced in Lightning Over Water (1980). See more »
Soundtracks Sexy Rock See more »
Quotes First Trooper: Inuk. listen. No judge in the world will understand you offering another man your wife.
Inuk: But it is our custom, we must be polite. White men don't borrow other men's wives?
First Trooper: Never mind that. You don't lend your wife as if she were a sled.
Inuk: Oh ho ho, someone would rather lend his wife than his sled. You lend your sled, it comes back cracked. You lend your knife, it comes back dull. You lend your dogs, they come back tired and crawling. But if you love your wife, no matter how often you lend her, she always comes back like new.
[embraces Asiak]
Inuk: Man, man, you don't understand?
Inuk: I understand. But the other men live by the book, and there you are a murderer
Inuk: But we must make them understand, otherwise Papik, Asiak and me cannot go into other men's igloos, that is OUR law.
Inuk: We change the book, huh?
[to Asiak as he prepares to go out]
Inuk: You bring the food
[Exits]
First Trooper: [to Asiak] They'll never understand.
Asiak: [as she exits the doorway of igloo] When you come to a strange land, you should bring your wives, and not your laws.
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