The Neanderthal Man (1953)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Robert Shayne	...	Prof. Clifford Groves (as Robert Shane)
	Joyce Terry	...	Jan Groves (as Joy Terry)
	Richard Crane	...	Dr. Ross Harkness
	Doris Merrick	...	Ruth Marshall
	Beverly Garland	...	Nola Mason, waitress
	Robert Long	...	George Oakes
	Tandra Quinn	...	Celia, the housekeeper (as Jeanette Quinn)
	Lee Morgan	...	Charlie Webb
	Eric Colmar	...	Buck Hastings
	Dick Rich	...	Sheriff Andy Andrews
	Robert Easton	...	Danny, a townsman
	Frank Gerstle	...	Mr. Wheeler, the hunter
	Anthony Jochim	...	Skeptical Naturalist
	Marshall Bradford	...	Conference Chairman
	William Fawcett	...	Dr. Fairchild

Storyline

Wheeler, a tourist-hunter in the California High Sierras, is not believed by the patrons of Webb's Cafe when he claims to have run across a live tiger with tusks. Among the scoffers is game-warden Oakes - until he is driving home later that night and the critter hops on the hood of his car. Oakes convinces a skeptical Dr. Harkness, state university zoologist, to come to the small town to investigate. At Webbs', Harkness meets Ruth, fiancée of Prof. Groves who maintains his home and lab outside the town, and thru her meets Groves' daughter, Jan. Groves himself is down in the city, angrily trying to convince the Naturalists' Society of the truth of his theory that the size of skull and brain equate with intelligence, and therefore Neanderthal man was equal, if not superior, to Homo sapiens. He is rejected, and by the time he returns home, seems completely unhinged... Written by Rich Wannen <RichWannen@worldnet.att.net>  

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