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Is this the one I think it us?




I've seen a lot of shock docs, but there's one, I've forgotten the title, with that rarity -- some footage which actually shocks or alarms me or freaks me out. Like the one I'm thinking of, which I saw a dozen or so years ago --*might* have been TGH. which included what looked like Super-8 footage shot from a low-flying airplane. There were naked or near-naked jungle people down on the ground, running from the airplane--as well they might, because the passenger(s) were apparently shooting them from the air, like they used to shoot wolves in Alaska. The voice-over narrative was telling how the Brazilian government was selling off parcels of the Amazon jungle to mining and rubber-growing interests, and a lot of this property came with its own population of "primitive" tribal nomads, who the purchasers were given carte blanche to deal with as they saw fit...hence this aerial pursuit. The voice-over went on to say that this was a reel of film that had been smuggled out of Brazil within the last few years.

The sequence looked incredibly realistic, i.e. it looked like just what it purported to be -- jerky, poor-quality footage like you'd expect from a handheld home-movie camera in a low flying aircraft. And the shootings *definitely* looked real.

Like I said in the first paragraph, not many mondo movies have actually upset me. This one, that sequence anyway, surely did. But I've forgot the title of the flick.

So, does anybody out there know enough to either confirm or deny if this footage was in *The Great Hunting*?
Sparrow 13

the Extremely DeLux One

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Hi,

No, this is a different film you are thinking of although Savage Man, Savage Beast (aka - The Great Hunting) does contain comparable (but clearly faked footage) of South American mercenaries shooting, mutilating then beheading native Amazonian Indio's. No scenes of men being shot from low fling planes though.

If you want to learn more about this movie however do check out the review I did for my website The Celluloid Tomb. You will find a link to it on the "Enternal Reviews" section.

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It may be in one of the Castiglioni Mondo films, or maybe Sweet and Savage. It's not in Savage Man Savage Beast or This Violent World, however.

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