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Ombre bianche (Original title)The Savage Innocents (Alternative title)Les Dents du diable (Alternative title)
Date: 1959 (Release)

Countries: Italy, France, United Kingdom, USA

Director: Nicholas Ray

Synopsis: Story of conflict between primitive Eskimos and Europeans who come to build a power station in their country.

Genre:
Drama
Releases
Date: 1959not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 70mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 111 mins Length: 9990 Feet

Credits (40)
Co-director [Italian prints]: Baccio Bandini, Production Company: Magic Film, Production Company: Play Art, Production Company: Gray Films, Production Company: La Société Nouvelle Pathé-Cinéma (Paris), Production Company: Joseph Janni, Producer: Maleno Malenotti, Production Manager: Douglas Peirce, Production Manager: Bianca Lattuada, Production Assistant: John L. Hargreaves, Assistant Director: Tom Pevsner, Assistant Director (2nd Unit): Jacques Giraldeau, 2nd Assistant Director: David Tringham, Continuity: Penny Daniels, Screenplay: Nicholas Ray, Adaptation: Hans Ruesch, Adaptation: Franco Solinas, Original Novel, 'Top of the World': Hans Ruesch, Director of Photography: Aldo Tonti, Director of Photography: Peter Hennessy, 2nd Unit Photographer: Patrick Carey, 2nd Unit Photographer: Riccardo Pallottini, Camera Operator: Jack Atcheler, 2nd Unit Camera Operator: Allan Bryce, Stills Photography: Harry Gillard, Stills Photography: Albert Clarke, Editor: Ralph Kemplen, Editor: Eraldo Da Roma, Art Director: Don Ashton, Art Director: Dario Cecchi, Set Decorator: Ted Clements, Costumes: Vittorio Nino Novarese, Make-up: George Blackler, Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Music Director: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recording: Geoffrey Daniels, Sound: Winston Ryder, Arctic Consultant: Douglas Wilkinson, Studio: Pinewood Studios
Cast (18)
Nicholas Stuart (), Anthony Quinn (Inuk), Yoko Tani (Asiak), Marie Yang (Powtee), Peter O'Toole (1st trooper), Carlo Giustini (2nd trooper), Kaida Horiuchi (Imina), Andy Ho (Anarvik), Marco Guglielmi (missionary), Yvonne Shima (Lulik), Lee Montague (Ittimangnerk), Francis De Wolff (trading post proprietor), Anthony Chin (Kidok), Anna May Wong (Hiko), Michael Chow (Undik), Ed Devereau (pilot), Robert Rietti ([dubbed English voice of 1st trooper]), Nikki van der Zyl ([dubbed English voice of Asiak])