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Writers:
J.G. Ballard (treatment)
Val Guest (screenplay)
Release Date:
17 March 1971 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Hammer film greater than 'ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.' more
Plot:
Set in a non-existant past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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An enjoyable exercise in pure cinema more (43 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Victoria Vetri | ... | Sanna | |
| Robin Hawdon | ... | Tara | |
| Patrick Allen | ... | Kingsor | |
| Drewe Henley | ... | Khaku | |
| Sean Caffrey | ... | Kane | |
| Magda Konopka | ... | Ulido | |
| Imogen Hassall | ... | Ayak | |
| Patrick Holt | ... | Ammon | |
| Jan Rossini | ... | Rock Girl | |
| Carol Hawkins | ... | Yani (as Carol-Anne Hawkins) | |
| Maria O'Brien | ... | Omah | |
| Connie Tilton | ... | Sand Mother | |
| Maggie Lynton | ... | Rock Mother | |
| Jimmy Lodge | ... | Fisherman | |
| Billy Cornelius | ... | Hunter |
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Germany:100 min | Portugal:97 min | USA:96 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.75 : 1 more
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Finland:K-16 (original rating) | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:G | West Germany:12
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A 27-word "caveman language" was devised for this movie, supposedly drawing on Phoenician, Latin, and Sanskrit sources. Some of the key words in this language are: "neecha" is "stop" or "come back"; "zak" is "gone" or "left"; "akita" is "look" or "see"; "neecro" is "bad" or "evil"; "m'kan" is "kill" or "killed"; "mata" is "dead"; "yo kita" is "go". more
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Referenced in "Paul Merton: The Series: (#1.1)" (1991) more
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A movie that just seems to get better with the passing years. The dialog is in "caveman" with no subtitles, which means the story is told almost entirely in visual terms. But, hey, that's how movies got started in the first place! Worth noting is the Canary Island scenery which is fresh and evocative. The human scenery is attractive as well with stars Victoria Vetri and Robin Hawdon spending the entire production in nothing more than fur bikinis. Hawdon's career in film acting never took off but he did a lot of stage work in England and a lot of writing as well. Worth reading is his 1984 novel, "A Rustle in the Grass" -- a delightful novel (a la "Watership Down") about a colony of ants. His most memorable scene in this movie consists of "beefcake-bondage" and it comes when he's tied spread-eagle-style between two wooden posts. Fuel for a fire is then piled between his spread-open legs. Curiously, though, his tormentors allow him to keep on his loincloth which certainly won't protect his more sensitive parts from the rising flames but which will, unfortunately, block some of the view and thus lessen the fun. Well, they were only cavemen and thus have a lot to learn about the nudity factor in torture and executions.