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One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1965-1966
Running Times: 100m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Technicolor
Ratio:
Sound:
DIRECTION
Directed by: Don Chaffey
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MVMLXVI [1966] Hammer Film Productions Limited
Production Company: Associated British-Pathe Limited presents a Hammer
Film production
Produced by: Michael Carreras
Associate Producer: Aida Young
Production Manager: John Wilcox
SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Michael Carreras
Adapted From an Original Screenplay by: Mickell Novak, George Baker,
Joseph Frickert
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Denis Bertera
Continuity: Gladys Goldsmith, Marjory Lavelly
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Wilkie Cooper
Camera Operator: David Harcourt
Second Unit Cameraman: Jack Mills
Stills: Pierre Luigi (uncredited)
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: James Needs
Editor: Tom Simpson
MUSIC
Music and Special Musical Effects Composed by: Mario Nascimbene
Musical Supervisor: Philip Martell
SOUND
Recording Director: A.W.
Lumkin
Sound Mixers: Len Shilton, Bill Rowe
Sound Editors: Roy Baker, Alfred Cox
RCA Sound Recording
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Carl Toms
Wardrobe Mistress: Ivy Baker
Make-up Supervisor: Wally Schneiderman
Hairdressing Supervisor: Olga Angelinetta
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: George Blackwell
VISUAL EFFECTS
Special Visual Effects Created by: Ray Harryhausen
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Robert Jones
Assistant Art Director: Kenneth McCallum Tait
Prologue Designed by: Les Bowie
OTHER CREW
Production Accountant: John
Trehy [uncredited]
LOCATIONS
Made at the Elstree Studios of Associated British Productions Ltd, Herts,
England
Locations: Lago Verde, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain; Las Canadas
National Park, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
CAST
starring
Raquel Welch (Loana)
John Richardson (Tumak)
with
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)
Yvonne Horner (Ullah)
Mickey De Rauch (1st shell girl)
PLOT SUMMARY
In prehistoric times, Tumak, disavowed son of the leader of the rock
people, is cast out from his tribe during a power struggle. Wandering
alone and lost in the wilderness, he battles all sorts of strange creatures
before being rescued by Loana from the fair-haired Shell tribe. After
upsetting the leader of the Shells, he is again cast out and, accompanied
by Loana, heads back to his own tribe to get revenge on his scheming
brother.
CAPSULE REVIEW
The first of Hammer's ill-advised forays into prehistory is still the
best, despite some moments that beggar belief and the very premise of
a beautifully made up, fur bikini-clad Raquel Welch battling dinosaurs
and grunting cavemen alike. Ray Harryhausen's effects and Welch's cleavage
are the real stars of the show and more than make up for a nonsense
script that's often as unintelligible as the cavemen's grunting.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Warner-Pathe Distributors Limited
Video Distributor: Thorn / EMI; Warner
USA
Theatrical Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Video Distributor: Fox Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: A
TIMELINE
1965
October
18: UK - principal photography begins
1966
January
6: UK - principal photography ends
November
24: West Germany - theatrical release
25: Finland - theatrical release
28: Sweden - theatrical release
December
30: UK - theatrical release
1967
February
21: USA - theatrical release
2002
January
3: UK - television broadcast (on Channel Four)
POSTER TAGS
This is the way it was.
Travel back through time and space to the edge of man's
beginnings... discover a savage world whose only law was lust!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Egymillió évvel ezelött - Hungarian title
Eine Million Jahre vor unserer Zeit
- German title
Giganternas kamp - Swedish title
Hace un millón de anos - Spanish title
Milion lat przed nasza era - Polish title
Milione di anni fa, Un - Italian
title
Miljoona vuotta eKr. - Finnish title
Million d'années avant J.C., Un -
French title
Millón de anos A.C., Un - Venezuelan
title
Quando o Mundo Nasceu - Portugese title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Aysecik ve sihirli cüceler rüyalar ülkesinde (1971)
Caveman (1981)
One Million B.C. (1940)
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Daily Cinema mo.9295 (16 November 1966)
p.5 (UK)
review
Dark Terrors no.3 p.16 (UK)
review
Dark Terrors no.8 (April 1994) pp.9-11
(UK)
illustrated article
Empire no.94 (April 1997) p.21 (UK)
article
Film and TV Technician vol.32 no.255
(June 1966) (UK)
credits
Film Daily vol.130 no.35 (21 February
1967) p.6 (USA)
review
Films in Review vol.18 no.3 (March 1967)
pp.178-179 (USA)
review
A Fistful of Soundtracks no.4 (November
1981) pp.100-101
soundtrack review
Kinematograph Weekly 6 January 1966 p.16
(UK)
credits
Kine Weekly no.3085 (19 November 1966)
p.10 (UK)
review
Little Shoppe of Horrors no.12 (April
1994) pp.82-84 (USA)
illustrated interview
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.33 no.395 (December
1966) p.180 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Motion Picture Herald vol.237 no.10 (8
March 1967) p.664 (USA)
review
Sight and Sound Winter 1966 - 1967 p.47
(UK)
note
Variety 28 December 1966 p.18 (USA)
credits, review
Video Watchdog no.34 pp.4-5 (USA)
review
BOOKS
British National Film Catalogue vol.4
(1966) (UK)
credits, synopsis
The Hammer Story pp.104-105
illustrated article, review (by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
cavemen, dinosaurs, prehistory
Last Updated:
30 June, 2009
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