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 | 68m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick |
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| Writer: | Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 06, 1960 |
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| Director: | Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick |
| Writer: | Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | divorcee, religious fundamentalism |
| Production Companies | City Film Corporation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $16,366
Budget: $65,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2026 Entered: May 01, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Barbara Baxley | Judith McGuire |
| Gary Merrill | The Poet |
| Herschel Bernardi | Kirk |
| Jean Hidey | Venus the Body |
| Elizabeth Zemach | The Nurse |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ben Maddow | Writer, Director |
| Haskell Wexler | Director of Photography |
| Helen Levitt | Director of Photography |
| Sidney Meyers | Writer, Director |
| Joseph Strick | Writer, Director |
| Jack Couffer | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ben Maddow | Producer |
| Joseph Strick | Producer |
| Sidney Meyers | Producer |
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