Teenage Cave Man (1958)A young man defies tribal laws and searches for answers. The result of his quest yields knowledge of past generations. Director:Roger CormanWriter:R. Wright Campbell (screenplay) |
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Teenage Cave Man (1958)A young man defies tribal laws and searches for answers. The result of his quest yields knowledge of past generations. Director:Roger CormanWriter:R. Wright Campbell (screenplay) |
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| Robert Vaughn | ... |
The Symbol Maker's Teenage Son
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Darah Marshall | ... |
The Blond Maiden
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Leslie Bradley | ... |
The Symbol Maker
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| Frank DeKova | ... |
The Black-Bearded One
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Charles P. Thompson | ... |
Member of the Tribe
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June Jocelyn | ... |
The Symbol Maker's Wife
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Jonathan Haze | ... |
The Curly-Haired Boy
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Beach Dickerson | ... |
Fair-Haired Boy /
Man from Burning Plains /
Tom-Tom Player /
Bear
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| Ed Nelson | ... |
Blond Tribe Member
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Robert Shayne | ... |
Young Tribe Member
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Marshall Bradford | ... |
Member of the Tribe
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Joseph Hamilton | ... |
Member of the Tribe
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Robert Vaughn stars as a white 25-year-old teenage caveman with styled hair who seeks to discover what is in the uncharted jungles beyond his tribe's campsite. It is against the Word (and the Word is the Law), but he breaks it anyway. Soon he discovers a strange creature which kills with its touch. Written by Jonah Falcon <jonahnynla@mindspring.com>
Teenage Caveman is an enjoyable Prehistoric adventure from Roger Corman and I taped this when BBC2 screened it during the early hours some years ago.
A young caveman goes against warnings and decides to explore the land beyond the river where his tribe live. There are plenty of dangers our there, including stock footage dinosaurs from One Million BC and Unknown Island, a pack of wild dogs and, best of all, a very strange looking "monster" that turns out to be a man in a radiation suit. We then learn that after a nuclear war, this part of the World went back to Prehistoric times.
Being made in the Atomic Age, this movie show was yet another theory what people thought could have happened in the event of any nuclear war. At the end, we also get to briefly see clips from other AIP movies including The She Creature.
The cast includes a young Robert Vaughn (The Man From UNCLE, The Magnificent Severn, Hustle) and sci-fi B movie regulars Jonathan Haze (Little Shop of Horrors, It Conquered the World), Ed Nelson (The Brain Eaters) and Robert Shayne (The Neanderthal Man, The Giant Claw).
Teenage Caveman is a good way to spend just over an hour one afternoon or evening. Low budget fun.
Rating: 3 stars out of 5.