UK, USA, 1967
95m
35mm, CinemaScope, colour, 2.35:1
mono
A British/American fantasy film directed by Michael Carreras.
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…
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Michael Carreras
© MCMLXVI [1966] Hammer Film Productions Ltd
A Seven Arts-Hammer Film production
Produced by: Michael Carreras
Associate Producer: Aida Young *
Screenplay by: Henry Younger [real name: Michael Carreras]
Director of Photography: Michael Reed
Supervising Editor: James Needs
Editor: Roy Hyde
Music Composed by: Carlo Martelli
Recording Director: A.W. Lumkin
Sound Mixers: Sash Fisher, Len Shilton
Costume Designer: Carl Toms
Make-up Supervisor: Wally Schneiderman
Hairdressing Supervisor: Olga Angelinetta
Special Effects: George Blackwell *
Art Director: Robert Jones
Cast
Martine Beswick (Kari)
Edina Ronay (Saria)
Michael Latimer (David)
Stephanie Randall (Amyak)
Carol White (Gido)
Alexandra Stevenson (Luri)
Yvonne Horner (first Amazon)
Danny Daniels (Jakara)
Sydney Bromley (Ullo)
Frank Hayden (Arja)
Robert Raglan (Colonel Hammond)
Louis Mahoney (head boy)
Bari Jonson (High Priest)
Mary Hignett (Mrs Hammond)
Steven Berkoff (John)
Sally Caclough [Amazon] *
Alternative Titles
O Escravo das Amazonas – Portugal
Femmine delle caverne – Italy
Mujeres prehistóricas – Spain
Prehistoric Women – shooting title
Links
Extracts included in
The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time (1994)
References
Periodicals
- British National Film Catalogue vol.6 (1968) – article in English
- Castle of Frankenstein no.12 p.6
- Castle of Frankenstein no.22 p.42
- The Daily Cinema no.9545 (8 July 1968) p.4 – review
- Films and Filming vol.14 no.11 (August 1968) p.26 – review
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.194 no.12 (20 January 1967) p.3 – credits, review
- The House That Hammer Built no.6 (December 1997) pp.292-293 – illustrated article (Slave Girls)
- Kine Weekly no.3170 (13 July 1968) p.10 – review
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.35 no.415 (August 1968) p.121 – credits, synopsis, review
- Motion Picture Herald vol.237 no.18 (3 May 1967) p.680-B – credits, review
- Variety 25 January 1967 p.6 – credits, review
Books
- Feature Films, 1960-1969: A Filmography of English-language and Major Foreign-language United States Releases by Harris M. Lentz III p.359
- Film Review 1969-70 by F. Maurice Speed (ed.) p.217 – credits, review
- Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company by Howard Maxford pp.749-750 – illustrated credits, synopsis, review
- The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films by Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes pp.106; 186 – illustrated article, review
- The Hammer Vault by Marcus Hearn pp.90-91
- Kine & TV Year Book 1970 p.115
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.380 – credits
- Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976 by Gary A. Smith pp.197-198
- World Filmography 1968 by Peter Cowie (ed.) p.217
