The Exiles (1961 film)
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The Exiles (1961) is a film by Kent MacKenzie (6 April 1930, Hampstead, England - May 1980, Marin County, California) 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.
The Exiles did not find a distributor to release it theatrically in 1961, 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 a U.S. commercial re-release by Milestone Film and Video was scheduled for summer 2008.
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[edit] Cast
- Yvonne Williams
- Homer Nish
- Tommy Reynolds
- Rico Rodrigues
- Clifford Ray Sam
- Clydean Parker
- Mary Donahue
- Eddie Sunrise
- Jacinto Valenzuela
- Ann Amiador
- Delos Yellow Eagle
- Louis Irwin
- Norman St. Pierre
- Marilyn Lewis
- Bob Lemoyne
- Ernest Marden
- Frankie Red Elk
- Chris Surefoot
- Sedrick Second
- Leonard Postock
- Eugene Pablo
- Matthew Pablo
- Sarah Mazy
- Gloria Muti
- Arthur Madrull
- Ted Guardipee
- Ned Casey
- Jay Robidaux
- I.J. Walker
- Julia Escalanti
- Danny Escalanti
- Della Escalanti
- Tony Fierro
[edit] Production crew
- Written, Produced and Directed by Kent MacKenzie
- Cinematography by Erik Daarstad, Robert Kaufman, John Morrill
- Production by Ronald Austin, Sam Farnsworth, John Morrill, Erik Daarstad, Robert Kaufman, Beth Pattrick, Sven Walnum, Paula Powers
- Additional Photography by Sven Walnum, Nicholas Clapp, Vilis Lapenieks.
- Archive Photographs by Edward S. Curtis
- Editing by Kent Mackenzie, Warren Brown, Thomas Conrad, Erik Daastad, Thomas Miller, Beth Patrick
- Music by Anthony Hilder, The Revels, Robert Hafner, Eddie Sunrise
- Sound by Sam Farnsworth
- Sound Effects Edited by Thomas Conrad
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
- Fleischer, Matthew (2008-08-14). "Exiles on Main Street". LA Weekly. http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/exiles-on-main-street-searching-for-the-ghosts-of-bunker-hills-native-american-past/19420/. Retrieved on 2008-08-14.
- The Exiles (1961 film) at the Internet Movie Database
- Milestone Films (distributor)
- The Official Exiles Website (with Trailer)
- Dargis, Manohla (2008-07-11). "Despair and Poetry at Margins of Society". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/movies/11exil.html?8dpc. Retrieved on 2008-07-11.
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