OT: Stuart Whitman: 'The sands of the Kalahari'

[370bc]

Actor Stuart Whitman has passed. He stared in what I think is one of the greatest hunter movies of all time. 'The sand of the Kalahari'. I waited 40 years before I was able to see it a second time. This movie is just another reason why today's movies are intolerable to watch for even 5 minutes. Like all movies, it does have it's slow parts, but for dollar for dollar, very few movies are of this stature. This is just a 4o minute clip.

 

[Flouncer]

I recall this movie very well. It's the one where the Baboons whip A$$ in the end, right ??

 

[Kurz]

Barring the loss of Stuart Whitman as an actor...

Another terrific hunting film from a different perspective is:

The Naked Prey - Cornell Wilde (producer, director and primary actor)

"Naked Prey is a member of the small number of films that reduce dialogue and fully utilize the visual medium to tell a tale. These movies frequently use natural settings and indigenous animals to express the apathy of the world to the struggles of an individual who is in crisis mode. The cinematography is engaging and the story is compelling.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060736/

This film is based in fact on an incident taking place in the U.S.:

In October 1808 fur trapper John Colter set out with another trapper, John Potts, on a trapping expedition. Foolishly, they returned to the Three Forks area in Montana, where they were able to amass almost a ton of furs. However, at Jefferson Fork they were attacked by Blackfoot Indians, who shot and killed Potts and took the furs. Colter was captured and given a chance to live. He was stripped naked and given a 30-second head start to run for his life. He outran all of the Indians except for one. When they were the only two left, Colter turned on his pursuer and in the ensuing fight took the Indian's spear and killed him with it. Colter ran for five miles across a rocky plain between the Jefferson and Madison Forks. Once he reached the Madison River, he dove under a mass of logs and beaver lodges and hid in an air pocket in the icy water until nightfall. He floated six miles downstream and climbed up a sheer cliff. He walked, still without any clothes, the 250 miles to Fort Raymond, where he arrived after 11 days.

The film manages to keep and maintain interest while using almost no dialogue.

Enjoy!

 

[370bc]

Barring the loss of Stuart Whitman as an actor...

Another terrific hunting film from a different perspective is:

The Naked Prey - Cornell Wilde (producer, director and primary actor)

"Naked Prey is a member of the small number of films that reduce dialogue and fully utilize the visual medium to tell a tale. These movies frequently use natural settings and indigenous animals to express the apathy of the world to the struggles of an individual who is in crisis mode. The cinematography is engaging and the story is compelling.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060736/

This film is based in fact on a incident taking place in the U.S.:

In October 1808 fur trapper John Colter set out with another trapper, John Potts, on a trapping expedition. Foolishly, they returned to the Three Forks area in Montana, where they were able to amass almost a ton of furs. However, at Jefferson Fork they were attacked by Blackfoot Indians, who shot and killed Potts and took the furs. Colter was captured and given a chance to live. He was stripped naked and given a 30-second head start to run for his life. He outran all of the Indians except for one. When they were the only two left, Colter turned on his pursuer and in the ensuing fight took the Indian's spear and killed him with it. Colter ran for five miles across a rocky plain between the Jefferson and Madison Forks. Once he reached the Madison River, he dove under a mass of logs and beaver lodges and hid in an air pocket in the icy water until nightfall. He floated six miles downstream and climbed up a sheer cliff. He walked, still without any clothes, the 250 miles to Fort Raymond, where he arrived after 11 days.

The film manages to keep and maintain interest while using almost no dialogue.

Enjoy!

Truly and dead on. A Fantastic movie.

 

[370bc]

I recall this movie very well. It's the one where the Baboons whip A$$ in the end, right ??

Yes. I remember being scared to death as a young person of those baboons. Great director.

 

[Shawnba67]

Barring the loss of Stuart Whitman as an actor...

Another terrific hunting film from a different perspective is:

The Naked Prey - Cornell Wilde (producer, director and primary actor)

"Naked Prey is a member of the small number of films that reduce dialogue and fully utilize the visual medium to tell a tale. These movies frequently use natural settings and indigenous animals to express the apathy of the world to the struggles of an individual who is in crisis mode. The cinematography is engaging and the story is compelling.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060736/

This film is based in fact on an incident taking place in the U.S.:

In October 1808 fur trapper John Colter set out with another trapper, John Potts, on a trapping expedition. Foolishly, they returned to the Three Forks area in Montana, where they were able to amass almost a ton of furs. However, at Jefferson Fork they were attacked by Blackfoot Indians, who shot and killed Potts and took the furs. Colter was captured and given a chance to live. He was stripped naked and given a 30-second head start to run for his life. He outran all of the Indians except for one. When they were the only two left, Colter turned on his pursuer and in the ensuing fight took the Indian's spear and killed him with it. Colter ran for five miles across a rocky plain between the Jefferson and Madison Forks. Once he reached the Madison River, he dove under a mass of logs and beaver lodges and hid in an air pocket in the icy water until nightfall. He floated six miles downstream and climbed up a sheer cliff. He walked, still without any clothes, the 250 miles to Fort Raymond, where he arrived after 11 days.

The film manages to keep and maintain interest while using almost no dialogue.

Enjoy!

Thank you! Ive looked a couple times trying to find a movie about Colters incident.
Theres an audiobook of Lewis and Clarks journals. Its well worth the listen

 

[nicholst55]

I remember that film very well. My parents took us to it at the drive-in (remember them??), IIRC.