Prehistoric Women (1967)
"Slave Girls" (original title)

Jungle guide David Marchand is kidnapped by a tribe of natives who want to sacrifice him to their white rhino god. Just as he's about to be killed, however, he is thrown backwards in time ... See full summary »

Director:

Michael Carreras

Writer:

Michael Carreras (screenplay)

Stars:

Martine Beswick, Edina Ronay, Michael Latimer

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Martine Beswick	...	Kari
Edina Ronay	...	Saria
Michael Latimer	...	David
Stephanie Randall	...	Amyak
Carol White	...	Gido
Alexandra Stevenson	...	Luri
Yvonne Horner	...	First Amazon
Sydney Bromley	...	Ullo
Frank Hayden	...	Arja
Robert Raglan	...	Colonel Hammond
Mary Hignett	...	Mrs. Hammond
Louis Mahoney	...	Head Boy
Bari Jonson	...	High Priest
Danny Daniels	...	Jakara
Steven Berkoff	...	John

Storyline

Jungle guide David Marchand is kidnapped by a tribe of natives who want to sacrifice him to their white rhino god. Just as he's about to be killed, however, he is thrown backwards in time to a kingdom of brunette women and their blonde slaves. David rejects the advances of Queen Kari and sides with the blondes, which leads to him being imprisoned in the dungeon. Can David find some way of returning to his own time? And if he does, what will be awaiting him when he returns?

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Plot Keywords:

female | cave woman | rhinoceros | dancing | slavery | 

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Taglines:

Beaten into submission . . . turned into slaves . . . man at the mercy of a Kingdom of Prehistoric Women!

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Genres:

Adventure | Fantasy

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 January 1967 (USA)

Also Known As:

Prehistoric Women

Filming Locations:

Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company Credits

Production Co:

Seven Arts Productions, Hammer Film Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Shot in only four weeks using sets and costumes left over from One Million Years B.C., in order to offset the earlier film's cost of 140,000 pounds.

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Connections

Featured in The World of Hammer: Lands Before Time (1994)

User Reviews

The rhino and the cavewomen

David Merchant (Michael Lattimer), while big game hunting, stumbles through a time (or whatever) warp. He encounters a "prehistoric"-type situation, first with African tribesmen, then falls into a setting in which cavewoman-garbed-bikini-clad blond girls are enslaved by similarly clad dark-haired women, led by the evil Queen Kari, played by Martine Beswick. Men are also enslaved, kept inside caves. In fairness, there is a background to the enslavement based on misdeeds as well, but in any event, the slaves wait in "spiritual bondage" until the legend of the "White Rhino" is fulfilled. The best scenes are the dancing scenes with the blond slave girls, and most of all, a dance by the statuesque Kari as part of her attempt to take David as her lover and offer him part of the throne, altho in return for her effective subservience to him. He resists here advances, because of her evil, and because his girl is the slave girl Saria (Edina Ronay). There is, as might be expected, a rousing climax.