“The Naked Prey” Trivia

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Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 24 Things We Learned from The Naked Prey Commentary.  Before we get into my favorite trivia items, if you’ve never seen The Naked Prey, please put it on your To Be Seen list.  It’s an under-rated action adventure film well worthy of your time.  Now for three of my favorites…

5. Writers Clint Johnston and Don Peters were nominated for an Academy Award for their script, and they worked again with Wilde on his follow-up film Beach Red (1967).

10. The story is inspired by the true story of a man named John Colter who endured a long journey on foot while pursued by members of the Blackfeet tribe in the early 1800s. (I’d read a short story about this incident before seeing the film and thought the similarities were too much to be coincidence. – Craig)

24. The film was Wilde’s favorite of the ones he directed, and he even wrote a script for a sequel. “He was negotiating with Paramount to do it when he died in 1989, so it was never to be.”