Jean-Pierre Melville directs this French noir classic, which opens with a prison break and ends with a mission of vengeance.
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‘The Naked Prey’ on Criterion Channel
The Naked Prey (1966), Cornel Wilde’s take on the Most Dangerous Game survival drama, may not be the first but it’s arguably the definitive, most visceral and primal example of the genre. Inspired by an account on the American frontier but shifted to 19th century colonial South Africa, the simple story begins with a bush […]