The Savage Eye

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In 1959, a trio of outsider filmmakers wrote, produced, edited and directed the 'dramatized documentary' that San Francisco Cinematheque calls "a masterpiece of verité cinema": Adrift and bitter after her recent divorce, a woman (Barbara Baxley of NORMA RAE and NASHVILLE) confronts the grim realities of existence amongst the poetic grotesqueries of urban Los Angeles.

Drama

Directed by

Ben Maddow, Joseph Strick, Sidney Meyers

Starring

Barbara Baxley, Elizabeth Zemach, Jean Hidey, Herschel Bernardi, Gary Merrill