The Savage Eye

The Savage Eye

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The Savage Eye

"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!""

1960

1h 8m

5.7(14 votes)

Drama

Overview

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.

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5 featured cast members

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Barbara Baxley

Barbara Baxley

Judith McGuire

Gary Merrill

Gary Merrill

The Poet

Herschel Bernardi

Herschel Bernardi

Kirk

Jean Hidey

Venus the Body

Elizabeth Zemach

The Nurse

Creative team

Directed by: Sidney Meyers
Ben Maddow
Written by: Ben Maddow
Sidney Meyers
Produced by: Ben Maddow
Joseph Strick

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