SYNOPSIS | REVIEW | PRODUCTION NOTES | TRIVIA | PRESS | QUOTES | KIM NEWMAN ARCHIVE | MEDIA


Slave Girls (1967)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1967
Running Times: 95m
Length:
Format: 35mm/CinemaScope
Colour Format: colour
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:


DIRECTION

Director: Michael Carreras


CREW

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Hammer Film Productions Limited
Producer: Michael Carreras
Production Manager: Ross MacKenzie

SCRIPT
Script: Henry Younger (real name: Michael Carreras)

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: David Tringham
Continuity: Eileen Head

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Michael Reed
Camera Operator: Robert Thomson
Colour: DeLuxe

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: James Needs
Editor: Roy Hyde

MUSIC
Music Supervisor: Philip Martell
Music: Carlo Martelli

SOUND
Recording Director: A.W. Lumkin
Sound Mixer: Sash Fisher
Dubbing Editor: Charles Crafford

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up Supervisor: Wally Schneiderman
Hair Supervisor: Olga Angelinetta
Costume Designer: Carl Toms
Wardrobe Mistress: Jackie Breed

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: George Blackwell

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Robert Jones

OTHER CREW
Choreographer: Denys Palmer


CAST

Martine Beswick (Kari)
Edina Ronay (Saria)
Michael Latimer (David)
Stephanie Randall (Amyak)
Carol White (Gido)
Alexandra Stevenson (Luri)
Yvonne Horner (1st Amazon)
Sydney Bromley (Ullo)
Frank Hayden (Arja)
Robert Raglan (Colonel Hammond)
Mary Hignett (Mrs Hammond)
Louis Mahoney (head boy)
Bari Jonson (High Priest)
Danny Daniels (Jakara)
Steven Berkoff (John)
Sally Caclough (Amazon)


PLOT SUMMARY

Big game hunter David Marchant stumbles upon a strange lost world deep in the African jungles and throws in his lot with a tribe of fair-haired women who are being oppressed by the dark-haired warrior women of the evil Kari. The dark-haired tribe regard men as inferiors and Marchant is soon fighting off the attentions of Kari...


AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Television Distributor: Warner Brothers
Video Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment Inc


CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Finland
Rating: banned in 1967

Portugal
Rating: M/16


TIMELINE

1967
January

25: USA - theatrical release

July
7: UK - theatrical release


ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Escravo das Amazonas, O - Portugese title
Femmine delle caverne - Italian title
Mujeres prehistóricas - Spanish title
Prehistoric Women - shooting title


REFERENCES

BOOKS

The Hammer Story p.106
illustrated article, review (by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes)


KEYWORDS

africa; lost worlds; big game hunters; jungles


Last Updated: 1 January, 2009

 


All text on this page © 2000 - 2009  EOFFTV