DEEP RIVER SAVAGES (1973) directed by Umberto Lenzi
2035DVD
director:
Umberto Lenzi
starring: Ivan Rassimov · Me Me Lay ·
Prasitsak Singhara · Sulallewan Suxantat · Ong Ard
aka MAN FROM DEEP RIVER. This movie
is notorious be being the FIRST Italian "Cannibal" Movie...
a genre that culminated a few years later with Ruggerio Deodata's CANNIBAL
HOLOCAUST. Ivan Rassimov plays a man-on-the-run from a pack of gangsters.
He escapes to the jungles of Thailand where he's captured buy a tribe
of cannibals. It's t he story of raw savagery, tribal torture, and one
man's courageous fight for survival, respect, and the delicate and tragic
love of a beautiful native girl. A compelling film in which character
relationships are brilliantly developed and a richness of human emotions
are played out against the bizarre and torturous rituals of the primitive
world.
An Italian
film; fullscreen, uncut (90 min.) version in DVD encoded for ALL REGIONS,
playable on any American DVD machine; in English language.
