Directed by:
Bill BennettCinematography:
Danny RuhlmannComposer:
David BridieCast:
Rufus Sewell, Martin Donovan, Maya Stange, John Howard, Marshall Napier, Max Cullen, Don BarkerPlots(1)
Two anthropologists travel to a remote island in the South Pacific to study its culture in the 1930s. Evelyn is an adventurous free thinker, while her husband Phillip is a rigid scholar bound to convention and propriety. Tension develops between the couple when Phillip fails to acknowledge what Evelyn sees as obvious: that women run this lusty culture. Tensions are upped another notch when Evelyn falls for Mick, a macho American pearl merchant. As Evelyn’s life begins to crash in around her, the Japanese army invades her island paradise and tragedy strikes her priggish husband. (Beyond Films)
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In a Savage Land
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Label: EMI
Year: 1999
Country: USA
Format: CD
Length: 55:41
1. | Luya Head High Meris | David Bridie | 02:22 |
2. | Closing Music | David Bridie | 01:41 |
3. | Big Haus / Escape To The Southcoast | David Bridie | 01:06 |
4. | Evelyn Leaves | David Bridie | 00:56 |
5. | The Walk Up To Malakalash | David Bridie | 01:13 |
6. | Village | David Bridie | 00:50 |
7. | Your Winnings | David Bridie | 01:01 |
8. | On The Railway Platform | David Bridie | 01:33 |
9. | Mick's Grave | David Bridie | 01:58 |
10. | Tom's Bula Bula | David Bridie | 01:42 |
11. | Pearling | David Bridie | 02:33 |
12. | Search And Loss In Adelaide | David Bridie | 00:56 |
13. | Library | David Bridie | 00:34 |
14. | Doba | David Bridie | 01:34 |
15. | Phillip Dies | David Bridie | 00:54 |
16. | Sail To Malakash | David Bridie | 01:45 |
17. | Bula Bula Luya Meris | David Bridie | 01:07 |
18. | Mr. Carpenter Comes In From The Rain | David Bridie | 00:53 |
19. | The Departure | David Bridie | 02:01 |
20. | Sail To Kiriwina | David Bridie | 00:59 |
21. | The Mourning Cage | David Bridie | 00:38 |
22. | Got Any Eggs? | David Bridie | 00:34 |
23. | Minuwesi Totovava On A Blessings Mouth Organ | David Bridie | 01:41 |
24. | Japanese Warships | David Bridie | 01:17 |
25. | Relationship Theme | David Bridie | 01:24 |
26. | Rings | David Bridie | 00:33 |
27. | Marriage Proposal | David Bridie | 00:20 |
28. | Siyeopa Wapa | David Bridie | 01:18 |
29. | Lik Lik Copra | David Bridie | 01:11 |
30. | Hed Hi Orchestra | David Bridie | 01:55 |
31. | Patrol Boat | David Bridie | 00:41 |
32. | Philip Rows - Oyubuyobu - Yobu Song | David Bridie | 02:33 |
33. | Love In The Lukaut Minor | David Bridie | 02:01 |
34. | Begin The beguine | David Bridie | 03:30 |
35. | Bulogala Bwaina | David Bridie | 03:54 |
36. | Kasolukova Valam | David Bridie | 03:18 |
37. | Kula Hassell | David Bridie | 01:15 |