The Exiles (1961 film)

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The Exiles (1961) is a documentary film by Kent MacKenzie 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 played the Berlin Film Festival in February 2008, and a U.S. commercial re-release by Milestone Film & Video was scheduled to follow.

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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 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

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