The Savage Eye

1959

Drama

1
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 377 377

divorcee religious fundamentalism

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Plot summary

Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights wandering through her new city, cynically remarking on the hypocrisy, vanity and brutality of the modern world and humanity's alienation from themselves and each other.

Director

Joseph Strick Photo
Joseph Strick

Top cast

Barbara Baxley Photo
Barbara Baxley as Judith McGuire
Gary Merrill Photo
Gary Merrill as The Poet
Herschel Bernardi Photo
Herschel Bernardi as Kirk
Jean Hidey Photo
Jean Hidey as Venus the Body
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
612.74 MB
1280*690
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds ...
1.11 GB
1920*1036
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 6 min
Seeds 100+

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by wilbrifar

fascinating footage, pretentious narrative

This film features wonderful documentary footage of Los Angeles circa 1959, and is a valuable artifact for that reason alone. Unfortunately, the woeful attempt to form the footage into a narrative featuring actress Barbara Baxley as a lonely woman wandering the city and sharing insufferably pretentious voice-over with Gary Merrill (pompously billed as "The Poet") make the film a chore to endure.I enjoy seeing this kind of footage, showing me how a city I love looked in another age, but the grandstanding voice-over is a deal breaker. Except for the disturbing faith-healer sequence, which is the only portion of the film to use sync sound, this is a movie best enjoyed with the volume turned down and some good music playing, maybe a little jazz from the era.
Reviewed by mark.waltz 8 / 10

If you've got money and you've got your health, why do you need love?

Reviewed by jsmog 10 / 10

The best film about LA street life ever made

That sounds like a heady comment, "best film about LA street life ever made," but I stick by it. Encapsulated in the rather thin plot, about a divorcee wandering the city, this is really a documentary on Los Angeles in 1959, and an amazing one at that. No one who lives here should feel they really know what it was like until they see this film, which includes footage of a New Year's celebration, the roller derby, a wrestling match, a strip club, and yes, the Second Street Tunnel again.
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