The Savage Is Loose is a 1974 American psychological drama directed by George C. Scott in which John, his wife Maida, and their infant son David are the only survivors of a shipwreck on a remote uncharted island in 1902 — and as years pass with no rescue in sight, David grows from a boy into a strong, wild young man with no women around except his own mother, developing an intense and consuming sexual obsession with Maida that puts him in direct, violent conflict with his father John, turning the once tight-knit family into a dangerous Oedipal triangle where father and son are essentially hunting each other down for the same woman.