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5 April 1940 (USA)
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UNBELIEVABLE! The World at the Dawn of Time! more
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Tumak, member of the prehistoric Rock tribe, is exiled and makes his way to the more peaceful Shell tribe...
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Victor Mature | ... | Tumak | |
| Carole Landis | ... | Loana | |
| Lon Chaney Jr. | ... | Akhoba | |
| Conrad Nagel | ... | Narrating Archaeologist | |
| John Hubbard | ... | Ohtao | |
| Nigel De Brulier | ... | Peytow | |
| Mamo Clark | ... | Nupondi | |
| Inez Palange | ... | Tohana | |
| Edgar Edwards | ... | Skakana | |
| Jacqueline Dalya | ... | Ataf | |
| Mary Gale Fisher | ... | Wandi | |
| Norman Budd | ... | Rock Person | |
| Harry Wilson | ... | Rock Person | |
| John Northpole | ... | Rock Person | |
| Lorraine Rivero | ... | Rock Person |
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80 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Originally, D.W. Griffith was supposed to direct the film. However, he quit in the middle of filming so Hal Roach and his son completed the project.
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Featured in Aventura al centro de la tierra (1965)
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Prehistoric man strives to elevate himself above the bestial in ONE MILLION B.C.
Hal Roach Studios produced this vivid and exciting film which ambitiously takes on nothing less than presenting the Birth of Civilization and the Beginning of Civility. That it does so without seeming pedantic or foolish is due in large measure to fine performances and special effects which still look good many decades later. The viewer knows the exploding volcano is a fraud and the dinosaurs are actually magnified lizards, but somehow it does not matter. The entertainment value is real and the sentiments presented by the actors still ring true.
Victor Mature & Carole Landis do quite well in roles which demanded speaking little more than nonsense words and grunts and using a significant amount of pantomime. They have no difficulty in conveying their thoughts and emotions to the audience. Their characters' efforts just to survive in an exceedingly harsh environment elicit the viewer's interest and respect.
Lon Chaney Jr, in a role his father would have relished, plays the brutal chief of the Rock People. Silent film actor Nigel De Brulier portrays the Shell People's gentle patriarch. Another star from silent days, Conrad Nagel, appears in the movie's opening sequence as the slightly obsessed scientist who interprets the cave paintings which tell the film's tale.