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The Savage Is Loose

Spain title: Un salvaje anda suelto
Greek title: Η απομόνωση
Russian title: Дикарь на свободе
Original title: The Savage Is Loose

Alternative titles:
I apomonosi

Family drama – Mexico, USA
Production year: 1974
Movie length: 114 minutes

Director: George C. Scott
Writer: Max Ehrlich, Frank De Felitta
Cinematograph: Álex Phillips Jr.
Music: Gil Melle

Movie description:

In 1902, John, his much younger wife Maida and their son David are the only survivors of a ship that crashes into the rocky beach of an uncharted island during a violent storm. By 1912, David, now a seemingly happy 12-year-old boy, begins to enter puberty. By the time he is 17, David is consumed by lust for his mother, which drives a wedge between him and his father to the point where they hunt each other down for the affections of the only woman on the island.

Near the turn of the century, John, his wife Maidi and their young son David are shipwrecked on a remote island. Resigned to the fact they may never be rescued, John teaches David how to survive on his own, and instills in him a macho philosophy that the strong will always defeat the weak. As the years pass, David grows to adulthood, and he begins formulating his own interpretation of his father’s teachings – as the stronger man, he is now ruler of the island, and that the island’s only woman should rightfully be his.

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