The Savage Eye

The Savage Eye (1960)

POET: "What's you name, traveller?" WOMAN: "Judith X" POET: "What's the X?" WOMAN: "X-Mcguire. I'm divorced." POET: "Alone?" WOMAN: "Alone" POET: "Why?" WOMAN "Because the touch of human skin makes me sick!"

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.

Date of release
1960-06-06
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 8m
Genres
Drama
Director
Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick

Casting

Interesting facts

The Savage Eye is a 1959 independent film written, produced, directed, and edited by Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, and Joseph Strick.

Production

According to Ben Maddow, the film began when Joseph Strick wanted to make an extended film. Maddow suggested a film about William Hogarth "using the etchings, rephotographing them, and comparing them with modern London, to see whether there were parallels or changes. This was a development of that." Eventually the concept of the film evolved.

Benjamin Jackson has noted that Irving Lerner, Strick's collaborator on the earlier documentary Muscle Beach (1948), "was part of the original group, but left in the middle of production." The camera footage for the film was shot over four years by the principal cinematographers Haskell Wexler, Helen Levitt, and Jack Couffer. The sound editing for the film was one of Verna Fields' early credits.

The directing trio worked over several years on this film during their weekends.

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