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A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma, Something Wild stars Carroll Baker, in a layered performance, as a college student who attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic (Ralph Meeker)—whose kindness, however, soon takes an unsettling turn. Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of artists around New York’s Actors Studio, which transformed American cinema in the mid-twentieth century. With astonishing location and claustrophobic interior photography by Eugene Schüfftan, an opening-title sequence by the inimitable Saul Bass, and a rhythmic score by Aaron Copland, Jack Garfein’s film is a masterwork of independent cinema.
Original Release
12/23/1961
US Release
12/23/1961
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Carroll Baker | Mary Ann Robinson |
Ralph Meeker | Mike |
Mildred Dunnock | Mrs. Gates |
Jean Stapleton | Shirley Johnson |
Martin Kosleck | Landlord |
Charles Watts | Warren Gates |
Clifton James | Detective Bogart |
George L. Smith | Store Manager |
Doris Roberts | Mary Ann's Co-Worker |
Ken Chapin | Policeman |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Carroll Baker | Mary Ann Robinson |
Ralph Meeker | Mike |
Mildred Dunnock | Mrs. Gates |
Jean Stapleton | Shirley Johnson |
Martin Kosleck | Landlord |
Charles Watts | Warren Gates |
Clifton James | Detective Bogart |
George L. Smith | Store Manager |
Doris Roberts | Mary Ann's Co-Worker |
Ken Chapin | Policeman |
Anita Cooper | Girl in 5 & 10 |
Ginny Baker | Shopgirl |
Tanya Lopert | Shopgirl |
Nancy Baker | Bit Part |
Virginia Baker | Girl in the 5 & 10 |
Reid Cruickshanks | Bit Part |
Robert Dahdah | Crowd |
Mike Dana | Gangster |
Roger De Koven | Bit Part |
William Hickey | Bit Part |
Producers
Name | Role |
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George Justin | Producer |