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One Million Years B.C. is film directed by Don Chaffey and produced by Hammer Films Production in 1966. Ray Harryhausen animated the dinosaurs in the film, making it a famous stop-motion dinosaur classic.
One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventure fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey. The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions and Seven Arts, and is a remake of the 1940 American fantasy film One Million B.C.. The film stars Raquel Welch and John Richardson, set in a fictional age of cavemen and dinosaurs coexisting together.
One Million Years B.C. is a British adventure fantasy film that was released on December 30, 1966. Contents. 1 Plot. 2 Casts and Characters. 3 Prehistoric Animals. 4 Gallery. Plot. Casts and Characters. Raquel Welch as Loana. John Richardson as Tumak. Percy Herbert as Sakana. Robert Brown as Akhoba. Martine Beswick as Nupondi. Jean Wladon as Ahot.
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This is a story of long, long ago, when the world was just beginning... A young world, a world early in the morning of time. A hard, unfriendly world. Creatures who sit and wait. Creatures who must kill to live. And man, superior to the creatures only in his cunning. There are not many men yet. Just a few tribes scattered across the wilderness. Nev...
Men of the dark-haired Rock tribe, led by chief Akhoba, who is accompanied by his rivaling sons, Tumak and Sakana, capture and kill a warthog and return to share it with the rest of the tribe. Tumak and Akhoba fight over the meat, and Akhoba banishes Tumak to the harsh desert. After surviving several encounters with various prehistoric creatures, T...
Raquel Welchas LoanaJohn Richardson as TumakPercy Herbert as SakanaRobert Brown as AkhobaDirected by Don ChaffeyScreenplay by Michael CarrerasBased on One Million B.C.1940 film by Mickell Novack, George Baker, Joseph FrickertProduced by Michael CarrerasThe exterior scenes were filmed on Lanzarote and Tenerife in the Canary Islands in the middle of winter. The film features the Echium wildpretii plant, as a homage to Tenerife's unique endemic flora. However, the plants are set in scenes filmed on the Lanzarote beach. In actuality, this plant only flowers from May to June. It is found in Tenerife m...
It was first screened on October 25, 1966, at the London Trade Show with a general release in the United Kingdom on 30 December 1966, by Warner-Pathé and the United States on February 21, 1967, by 20th Century Fox. The U.S. cut was censored for a broader audience, losing around nine minutes. Deleted scenes included a provocative dance from Martine ...
Box Office
Despite the censorship upon release in the U.S., the film was still popular and made $2.5 million in U.S. rentals during its first year of release. According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $2,250,000 in rentals to break even and made $4,425,000, meaning it made a solid profit. In 1968, it was re-released in the UK on a double feature alongside She (1965), an earlier Hammer film. The pairing became the ninth most popular theatrical release of the year.
Critical Response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 62% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 5.64/10. Among contemporary reviews, Variety wrote "the whole thing is good humored full-of-action commercial nonsense, but the moppets will love it and older male moppets will probably love Miss Welch"; and The Monthly Film Bulletin noted "Very easy to dismiss the film as a silly spectacle; but Hammer production finesse is much in evidence and Don Chaffey has done a c...
Legacy
All the dinosaur models from this film still exist, although the Ceratosaurus and Triceratops were re-purposed for The Valley of Gwangi (1969), as Gwangi the Allosaurus and the Styracosaurus. One Million Years B.C. was the first in an unconnected series of prehistoric films from Hammer. It was followed by Prehistoric Women (1968), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) and Creatures the World Forgot (1971). Stock footage depicting the landslide was reused for Alex's daydream scene in Stanley K...
The film was adapted into a 15-page comic strip for the May 1978 issue of the magazine House of Hammer (volume 2 #14, published by Top Sellers Ltd). It was drawn by John Bolton from a script by Steve Moore. The cover of the issue featured a painting by Brian Lewis of Welch in the famous fur bikini. In the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, a large...
One Million Years B.C. (1966) has been released on VHS, DVD, HD DVD and Blu Ray.One Million Years B.C. (1966) is NOTcurrently available on any streaming service or VOD platform.One Million Years B.C. is a prehistoric adventure film directed by Don Chaffey. Set in a fictional past where humans coexist with dinosaurs, it follows the story of Tumak, a caveman exiled from his tribe, and his encounters with various prehistoric creatures and tribes. Starring Raquel Welch and John Richardson, the film is notable for its ...
One Million Years BC is a pre-certed UK VHS by EMI on April 1981. From its beginnings, the motion picture has been the happy hunting ground of a host of fabulous creatures - mermaids and unicorns, vampires and werewolves, dragons, zombies and assorted overgrown specimens of the insect and...
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Michael Carreras. Screenplay. As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes.
