One Million Years B.C.


One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventurefantasy film starring Raquel Welch and John Richardson, set in a fictional age of cavemen and dinosaurs. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions and Seven Arts, and is a remake of the Hollywood film One Million B.C. 1940. It recreates many of the scenes of the earlier film such as an allosaurus attacking a tree full of children. Location scenes were filmed on the Canary Islands in the middle of winter, in late 1965. The British release prints of this film were printed in dye transfer Technicolor. The film was released in edited form in the United States in 1967, printed in DeLuxe Color.

Akoba Robert Brown leads a hunting party into the hills to search for prey. One member of the tribe traps a warthog in a pit, and then Akobas son Tumak John Richardson kills it. The tribe brings it home for dinner and Tumak is later banished to the harsh desert because of a fight over a piece of meat with Akoba. After surviving many dangers such as a giant iguana, ape men, Brontosaurus and a giant spider, he collapses on a remote beach, where he is spotted by Loana the Fair One Raquel Welch and her fellow fisherwomen of the Shell tribe. They are about to help him when an Archelon which is three times the size of the actual prehistoric Archelon makes its way to the beach. Men of the Shell tribe arrive and drive it back into the sea. Tumak is taken to their village, where Loana tends to him. Scenes follow emphasising that the Shell tribe is more advanced and more civilized than the Rock tribe. They have cave paintings, music, delicate jewellery made from shells, agriculture, and rudimentary language all things Tumak seems to have never before encountered.When the tribe women are fishing, an Allosaurus attacks. The tribe flees to their cave, but in the panic, a small girl is left trapped up a tree. Tumak seizes a spear from Ahot Jean Wladon, a man of the Shell tribe, and rushes forward to defend her. Emboldened by this example, Loana runs out to snatch the child to safety, and Ahot and other men come to Tumaks aid, one of the men being killed before Tumak is finally able to kill the creature. In the aftermath, a funeral is held for the dead men a custom which Tumak disdains. Leaving the funeral early, he reenters the cave, and attempts to steal the spear with which he had killed the Allosaurus. Ahot, who had taken back the spear, enters and is angered by the attempted theft, and a fight ensues. The resulting commotion attracts the rest of the tribe, who unite to cast Tumak out. Loana leaves with him, and Ahot, in a gesture of friendship, gives him the spear over which

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