Eegah (1962)

Director:

Arch Hall Sr.

Writers:

Bob Wehling (screenplay)
Arch Hall Sr. (original story)

Genre:

Adventure | Fantasy | Musical

Tagline:

The Crazed Love of a Prehistoric Giant for a Ravishing Teenage Girl!

Plot:

Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.

Plot Keywords:

Giant | Palm Springs California | Teenage Girl | Caveman | Desert

Cast

Arch Hall Jr.	...	Tom Nelson
Marilyn Manning	...	Roxy Miller
Richard Kiel	...	Eegah
Arch Hall Sr.	...	Robert Miller (as William Watters)
Clay Stearns	...	Band Member
Bob Davis	...	George
Deke Richards	...	Band Member (as Deke Lussier)
Ron Shane	...	Detective
Addalyn Pollitt	...	George's Wife
Lloyd Williams	...	Kruger (as William Lloyd)
Ray Dennis Steckler	...	Mr. Fishman (as Ray Steckler)
Bill Rice	...	Chef
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carolyn Brandt	...	Fishman's Girl (uncredited)

Directed by
Arch Hall Sr.		(as Nicholas Merriwether)

Writing credits
Bob Wehling		(screenplay)
Arch Hall Sr.		(original story) (as Nicholas Merriwether)

Produced by
Arch Hall Sr.	....	producer (as Nicholas Merriwether)
Don Schneider	....	associate producer

Original Music by
André Brummer		(as Henry Price)

Cinematography by
Vilis Lapenieks		(director of photography) (as Vilis Lapeneicks)

Film Editing by
Don Schneider

Production Management
H. Duane Weaver	....	production manager

Sound Department
Sam Kopetzky	....	sound recording engineer

Camera and Electrical Department
Ray Dennis Steckler	....	assistant camera (uncredited)

Music Department
Alan O'Day	....	music editor (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Fairway International Pictures

Distributors

• Fairway International Pictures (1962) (USA) (theatrical)
• Rhino Home Video (1985) (USA) (VHS)
• Rhino Home Video (1993) (USA) (VHS) (Hosted by Elvira)
• Sinister Cinema (1993) (USA) (VHS)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (199?) (USA) (VHS)
• Rhino Home Video (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• Rhino Home Video (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• VCI Home Video (2000) (USA) (VHS)
• Platinum Disc (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Platinum Disc (2001) (USA) (VHS)
• Alpha Video Distributors (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Rhino Home Video (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2004) (worldwide) (VHS)
• Mill Creek Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Reel Media International (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• E1 Entertainment (2011) (USA) (DVD)
• Synergy Entertainment (2007) (worldwide) (DVD) (DVD-R)

Also Known As:

"Eegah!" - USA (poster title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Unrated | UK:PG | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Fairway International Pictures

Trivia:

Arch Hall Sr. once said, "It was always sort of a subject of laughter that the darned thing did so well."

Goofs:

Continuity: In the scene by the pool, an actress who has 'swooned' is lying near a post. When the camera returns to the scene, she has moved to a different spot in relation to the post.

Quotes:

Robert Miller:He's offering you a drink of sulphur water.
Roxy Miller:A prehistoric gentleman, huh?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Runaway Bride (1999)

Soundtrack:

Vickie

"Wowzie! Wow! Wow!"

Eegah is all it has been hyped up to be. It is an awful film with some of the most ludicrous scenes, dialog, and performances to be seen in film. And by the way - it's a whole lot of fun to sit through. A caveman, having lived out his life in Southern California in a cave with a family that is now mummified, stops the car of a beautiful teen one night. She tells her famous author dad, and he goes into the mountain to find the prehistoric man. Soon she and her idiot boyfriend go to find pops and the adventure begins. Eeagh is a terrible film on many levels. The script for starters is just plain stupid. How did a cave man live in the cave of a mountain covered with nothing but sand and brush for over a century? Where did he get his food and water? Yeah, sure we saw him with a rabbit but let's get real. The cave man acts like a child for much of the film even allowing himself to be shaved by Roxy, the girl of his dreams(after a century or so any woman could have fit that bill). The Neanderthal is played by none other than Richard Kiel, Jaws from James Bond fame. Kiel is actually the best thing about this film. He gives a performance with some depth. His colleagues; however, are sufficiently deficient in that department as to make a complete mockery of the film's plot. Roxy is bad. Her dad, Arch Hall Sr. (the director as well) is wooden, and the worst acting prize goes to the director's son Arch Hall Jr. as a real annoying boyfriend who has to sing some songs every now and then. Here is a sample of the lyrics: "I wish I had a billion dollars and a banker's salary and I would buy up all the flowers to give to Valerie." That's one of the better lines. Hall Jr. mugs, struts, and ambles through much of the film delivering inane dialog. The end of the film has the obvious denouement to a relationship that just "caved in." Even though it is bad, this film is a whole lot of fun. The errors jump out at you from the first scene and the laughs ensue almost immediately from the unintentional ineptitude of the makers of the film.