Leave it to people from an alleged civilized society to go to the land of an indigenous people and practically destroy them with their nonsense. Three men on a whaling ship are cast out into the frigid North Sea Waters and rescued by Inuit people go take them in, share their lives, food and women, and pretty much live to regret it. Warren Oates, Louis Gossett Jr. And Timothy Bottoms are the only actors who speak English in this, with the Inuit people speaking their own language come on, burning to communicate with the outside world through their actions, eyes and other sources of communication. Coates is grizzled and grouchy, Gossett a bit more easy going and sensible, and Bottoms, the young one of the group, somewhat innocent and naive, falling in love with one of the young women whose Hospitality makes him feel welcome. They attempt to leave by stealing a boat but once again put one of the natives in Jeopardy by having to go out and rescue them, and later, they introduced the natives to alcohol, something that causes a lot of problems. A native from outside the community, heavily into native superstitions and belief in the occult, insist that these three men (whom they refer to as the dog people) will be their destruction, and indeed, certain elements of what they do seem to indicate that he's right.
Hollywood movies about natives from the Northeast seem to be not very realistic in many ways, from the 1934 film "Eskimo" to the disappointing "The Savage Innocents" in 1960. "Mrs. Mike" (1949) was more successful in having them as supporting characters, and the docudrama, "Nanook of the North", filmed them as their lived. This shows good reason why the outside world should leave them and other indigenous people alone, that their customs are not for us to understand or try to change, and that their innocence, of a spiritual nature civilized people could never hope to understand, is between them and their natural instincts and God, and eventually, they come to see how bad the arrival of these three men has been for their society. The film becomes violent after moments of comic innocence towards the beginning, showing how a seemingly innocent people can finally have enough when something threatens to destroy what they've created, even with a small number of outside Intruders.
Hollywood movies about natives from the Northeast seem to be not very realistic in many ways, from the 1934 film "Eskimo" to the disappointing "The Savage Innocents" in 1960. "Mrs. Mike" (1949) was more successful in having them as supporting characters, and the docudrama, "Nanook of the North", filmed them as their lived. This shows good reason why the outside world should leave them and other indigenous people alone, that their customs are not for us to understand or try to change, and that their innocence, of a spiritual nature civilized people could never hope to understand, is between them and their natural instincts and God, and eventually, they come to see how bad the arrival of these three men has been for their society. The film becomes violent after moments of comic innocence towards the beginning, showing how a seemingly innocent people can finally have enough when something threatens to destroy what they've created, even with a small number of outside Intruders.