The Savage Eye

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The Savage Eye

1960

1h 7m

Drama

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Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire (Barbara Baxley) 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. Even as she attempts to re-enter the dating world with a new suitor (Herschel Bernardi), Judith remains closed off until an unexpected shock rocks her emotions.

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Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

May 26

The Savage Eye is a New Yorker’s vision of the City of Angels, unflattering and unforgiving.

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John McCarten

The New Yorker

08/15/2022

When all the papier-mache walls of Hollywood -- so expensively molded into nice and profitable conformity -- come tumbling down, this small economy semi-documentary structure will be regarded as a repository of some of the facts about our time.

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Variety Staff

Variety

07/06/2010

Fascinating and uncompromising semi-documentary impressively put together as an obvious labor of love by three talented American filmmakers.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Jul 23

3/4

A singularly unique experience, basically a docudrama before docudramas really took off.

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Penelope Gilliatt

Observer (UK)

02/20/2024

Made by Joseph Strick, Sidney Meyers and Ben Maddow, The Savage Eye is powerful, jaundiced stuff.

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

07/16/2019

The defects are in the script. The plot line on which the documentary sequences are hung is anemic and unconvincing.

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11/24/2018

Like many an experimental film of yesteryear, The Savage Eye has in many ways not withstood the test of time. But in whatever way it has aged badly (ever so slightly), the film remains interesting, if not occasionally startling.

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Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire (Barbara Baxley) 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. Even as she attempts to re-enter the dating world with a new suitor (Herschel Bernardi), Judith remains closed off until an unexpected shock rocks her emotions.

Director: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick
Producer: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick
Screenwriter: Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick
Production Co: City Film Corporation
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): Oct 10, 2000
Runtime: 1h 7m

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