The Savage Innocents is a 1960 film, adapted from the novel Top of the World by Swiss writer Hans Resch.
The screenplay was mainly written by its director, Nicholas Ray, who shot the film in the Canadian Arctic (with interiors shot in Britain's Pinewood Studios and in Rome's Cinecitt studios). The film was an international co-production, with British, Italian and French interests involved; in the United States it was released by Paramount Pictures. The film was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
