A time capsule of Bunker Hill's Native Americans

THE GAP between a film's completion and its theatrical premiere is subject to some fluctuation, but 47 years is an unusually long delay by any standard. Kent Mackenzie's Los Angeles film "The Exiles," about a night ("any night," as Mackenzie described it) in the lives of young Native Americans living on downtown's Bunker Hill, finished in 1960 and reaching theaters only next month, is the subject of the year's most unlikely cinematic resurrection.

July 6, 2008