I recently bought The Savage Innocents on a Region 2 DVD. Most US DVD players can be easily converted to play Region 2 DVDs. It is in Mono and full frame, but very good. Though it never says so, it appears the movie was suppose to take place in the 1950s because a very bad rock song plays on the jukebox. The movie was filmed mostly on stages and by an Italian studio. It is unclear if it was suppose to take place in Alaska or Canada. Having lived in Alaska for 30 years, I am sure there were no Eskimos in Alaska in the 1950s who did not know about firearms. This is especially true because of the Eskimo Army units organized during World War II. That being said, I enjoyed the movie and seeing it again after so many years. It is interesting to compare the plot of this movie with one called the " Wild North" from 1953 (The Savage Innocents was released in1960). It stared Steward Granger and Cornel Wilde and has a very similar plot. In Wild North, Granger accidentally kills a man and is arrested by Wilde a Canadian Mounted Policeman. They have a number wild experiences when Wilde attempts to takes Granger back to civilization for trial. Wilde eventually decides to let him go free. In my mind the plots are too similar not to be from the same source.
Review of The Savage Innocents
