The Exiles (1961 film)

The Exiles
Directed by Kent Mackenzie
Produced by Kent Mackenzie
Written by Kent Mackenzie
Starring
  • Yvonne Williams
  • Homer Nish
  • Tommy Reynolds
  • Rico Rodriguez
  • Clifford Ray Sam
  • Clydean Parker
  • Mary Donahue
Music by
Cinematography
  • Erik Daarstad
  • Robert Kaufman
  • John Morrill
Edited by
  • Kent Mackenzie
  • Warren Brown
  • Thomas Conrad
  • Erik Daarstad
  • Thomas Miller
  • Beth Pattrick
Release dates
  • 1961 (original)
  • 2008 (restoration)
Running time
72 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Exiles (1961) is a film by Kent MacKenzie chronicling a day in the life of a group of twenty-something Native Americans who left reservation life in the 1950s to live in the district of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California. Bunker Hill was then a blighted residential locality of decayed Victorian mansions, sometimes featured in the writings of Raymond Chandler, John Fante, and Charles Bukowski. The structure of the film is that of a narrative feature, the script pieced together from interviews with the documentary subjects. The film features Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, and Tommy Reynolds.

Production

Filming was done in 1958. The film features rock and roll music composed for the film and performed by The Revels. The cast of American Indian actors are notable for their lack of self-consciousness as they drink and socialize during a night out on the town ending in a 49 party[1] of drumming and dancing on "Hill X" overlooking downtown LA.[2][3]

Release

The Exiles premiered at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. As it was only licensed 16mm version to schools and churches, it did not find a distributor to release it theatrically in that year,[4] and so over the years it fell into obscurity, known to cinephiles but remaining largely unseen by the public. A restored version produced by the UCLA Film and Television Archive premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008, and Milestone Films released it commercially and on DVD in summer 2008.

Legacy

In 2009, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and will be preserved for all time.[5]

Cast

  • Yvonne Williams
  • Homer Nish
  • Tommy Reynolds
  • Rico Rodrigues
  • Clifford Ray Sam
  • Clydean Parker
  • Mary Donahue
  • Eddie Sunrise as singer on Hill X
  • Jacinto Valenzuela
  • Ann Amiador as waitress at The Ritz
  • Delos Yellow Eagle
  • Louis Irwin
  • Norman St. Pierre
  • Marilyn Lewis as Yvonne’s friend
  • Bob Lemoyne
  • Ernest Marden
  • Frankie Red Elk

  • Chris Surefoot
  • Sedrick Second
  • Leonard Postock
  • Eugene Pablo
  • Matthew Pablo
  • Sarah Mazy
  • Gloria Muti
  • Arthur Madrull as man being shaved
  • Ted Guardipee
  • Ned Casey
  • Jay Robidaux
  • I.J. Walker
  • Julia Escalanti as Rico's wife
  • Danny Escalanti as boy with skypiece
  • Della Escalanti
  • Tony Fierro

Production crew

Additional crew

  • Marvin Walowitz
  • Lawrence Silberman
  • Stuart Hanisch
  • Mindaugus Bagdon
  • Charles Smit
  • Judy Bradford

  • Ken Nelson
  • Ron Honthaner
  • David MacDougall
  • James Christensen
  • Stanley Follis
  • Ramon Ponce

See also

References

External links

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