One Million Years B.C. (1966)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Don Chaffey

Writers:

Michael Carreras (screenplay)
Mickell Novack (adapted from an original screenplay by) ...

Release Date:

21 February 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

This is the way it was.

Plot:

Caveman Tumak is banished from his savage tribe. He finds a brief home among a group of gentle seacoast...

Plot Keywords:

Tribe | Caveman | Prehistoric | Volcano | Remake

Cast

Raquel Welch	...	Loana
John Richardson	...	Tumak
Percy Herbert	...	Sakana
Robert Brown	...	Akhoba
Martine Beswick	...	Nupondi
Jean Wladon	...	Ahot
Lisa Thomas	...	Sura
Malya Nappi	...	Tohana
Richard James	...	Young Rock Man
William Lyon Brown	...	Payto
Frank Hayden	...	1st Rock Man
Terence Maidment	...	1st Shell Man
Micky De Rauch	...	1st Shell Girl
Yvonne Horner	...	Ullah

Runtime:

100 min | USA:91 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Canada:G (Nova Scotia) | Sweden:15 | Singapore:PG | UK:PG (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Lago Verde, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

Company:

Associated British-Pathé

Trivia:

The exterior scenes were filmed in the Canary Islands in the middle of winter.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Humans and dinosaurs were not contemporaneous. There were no dinosaurs one million years ago, having gone extinct 65 million years ago.

Movie Connections:

Featured in You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)

B(e)C(ause) of various factors

OK, having seen many movies about the Stone Age, we should know that the men were all buff dudes, and the women were all buxom babes. That's certainly the case here. Obviously, no part of "One Million Years B.C." really makes sense - humans and dinosaurs never existed contemporaneously - but that doesn't matter. The movie was intended as entertainment, and it's very enjoyable. Maybe that's just because we get to see Raquel Welch in a bikini, but the dinosaurs are also pretty cool. The movie makes us nostalgic for the era, even though we never experienced it.

So, it's brain candy to the max, and it doesn't pretend to be anything else. You're sure to like it, if only for the thought of Raquel Welch dressed like that.