The Exiles (1961 film)

"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.

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

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

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

External links

*cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/exiles-on-main-street-searching-for-the-ghosts-of-bunker-hills-native-american-past/19420/|title=Exiles on Main Street|last=Fleischer|first=Matthew|date=2008-08-14|publisher=LA Weekly|accessdate=2008-08-14
*imdb title|0054861
* [http://www.milestonefilms.com/movie.php/exiles/ Milestone Films] (distributor)
* [http://www.exilesfilm.com The Official Exiles Website (with Trailer)]
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