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 Corman

Writer:

R. Wright Campbell (screenplay)

Stars:

Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Robert Vaughn	...	The Symbol Maker's Teenage Son
Darah Marshall	...	The Blond Maiden
Leslie Bradley	...	The Symbol Maker
Frank DeKova	...	The Black-Bearded One (as Frank De Kova)
Charles P. Thompson	...	Member of the Tribe (as Charles Thompson)
June Jocelyn	...	The Symbol Maker's Wife
Jonathan Haze	...	The Curly-Haired Boy
Beach Dickerson	...	Fair-Haired Boy / Man from Burning Plains / Tom-Tom Player / Bear
Ed Nelson	...	Blond Tribe Member
Robert Shayne	...	Young Tribe Member
Marshall Bradford	...	Member of the Tribe
Joseph Hamilton	...	Member of the Tribe (as Joseph H. Hamilton)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

caveman | post apocalypse | past is future | post nuclear war | cave woman | 

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Taglines:

Nuclear holocaust has destroyed the world as we know it--and now the future of humanity is in the hands of TEENAGE CAVEMAN

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Genres:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

July 1958 (USA)

Also Known As:

I Was a Teenage Caveman

Filming Locations:

Arcadia, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$70,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Malibu Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

65 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Beach Dickerson, a Corman regular, did quadruple roles...not only is he the fair-haired boy that drowns in quicksand, he is also the stranger riding in from the burning plains, the bear that attacks the hunting party, and even plays a drummer during the funeral for his own character!

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Goofs

Some of the cave men have "farmers' tans."

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Connections

Edited from The She-Creature (1956)

User Reviews

Warning, don't go beyond the river

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.