Country: USA
Year: 1961
Duration: 72\'
A typical night, from four o’clock on a Friday afternoon to Saturday’s “The Exiles was conceived to reveal the complex problems of the
dawn, in the lives of Yvonne and Homer, a young couple of Native
Americans who have left their reservations to live in Los Angeles where
they share a two-room apartment with the Mexican Tommy and other
four friends. The young men set off at nightfall to go drinking, play
cards, pick up girls, fight and dance. Yvonne goes to the movies on
her own and, at the end of the show, she wanders through the city until
finally she arrives at the apartment of a girlfriend, where she decides
to stay the night.
Indians in the city. Instead of leading an audiance through a sequence
of problems-decisions-action-solution on the part of the characters,
we sought to photograph the infinite details surrounding these people,
to let them speak for themselves, and to let the fragments mount up.
Then, instead of supplying a resolution, we hoped that the picture
would become, to the viewer, a revelation of a condition about which
he will either do something, or not.”
Biography
film director
Kent Mackenzie
Kent Mackenzie (London, UK, 1930 - Marin County, California, USA, 1980) at nine moved to Bronxville, New York, due to his father’s work. Matriculeted to Dartmouth College, he majored in English Literature and then found his interest in motion picture. In 1951, after the graduation, he made plans to leave the East Coast to go to Hollywood but he was interrupted by the call in the Army. In 1953, after completed his militar duty, he finally moved to Los Angeles, where he attended the University of Southern California Cinema Department. His graduate film project Bunker Hill - 1956 (1956) earned
a screening at the Edinburgh Film Festival and won the Silver Award. Mackenzie also worked as a screenwriter, editor, producer and actor. In 1971 he edited, produced and directed his last feature film, Saturday Morning. He died in 1980 in California.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bunker Hill - 1956 (1956), The Exiles (1961), The Story of a Rodeo Cowboy (1964), A Skill for Molina (1968), Saturday Morning (1971).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Kent Mackenzie
fotografia/cinematography Erik Daarstad, Robert Kaufman, John Morrill
montaggio/film editing Kent Mackenzie, Warren Brown, Thomas Conrad, Erik Daarstad, Thomas Miller, Beth Pattrick
musica/music Anthony Hilder, The Revels, Robert Hafner, Eddie Sunrise
suono/sound Sam Farnsworth
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Yvonne Williams (Yvonne), Homer Nish (Homer), Tommy Reynolds (Tommy), Rico Rodriguez (Rico), Clifford Ray Sam (Cliff), Clydean Parker (Claudine), Mary Donahue (Mary)
produttori/producers Kent Mackenzie, Ronald Austin, Sam Farnsworth, John Morrill, Erik Daarstad, Robert Kaufman, Beth Pattrick, Sven Walnum, Paula Powers
vendita all’estero/world sales Milestone Films
fotografia/cinematography Erik Daarstad, Robert Kaufman, John Morrill
montaggio/film editing Kent Mackenzie, Warren Brown, Thomas Conrad, Erik Daarstad, Thomas Miller, Beth Pattrick
musica/music Anthony Hilder, The Revels, Robert Hafner, Eddie Sunrise
suono/sound Sam Farnsworth
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Yvonne Williams (Yvonne), Homer Nish (Homer), Tommy Reynolds (Tommy), Rico Rodriguez (Rico), Clifford Ray Sam (Cliff), Clydean Parker (Claudine), Mary Donahue (Mary)
produttori/producers Kent Mackenzie, Ronald Austin, Sam Farnsworth, John Morrill, Erik Daarstad, Robert Kaufman, Beth Pattrick, Sven Walnum, Paula Powers
vendita all’estero/world sales Milestone Films