- Actors: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick
- Directors: Don Chaffey
- Writers: Michael Carreras, George Baker, Joseph Frickert, Mickell Novack
- Producers: Aida Young, Hal Roach, Michael Carreras
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 22 April 2001
- Run Time: 91 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CJOH
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 13,934 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One Million Years B.C. might be about as palaeontologically accurate as The Flintstones, but it's still a lasting kitsch masterpiece, as much for Raquel Welch’s Amazonian presence in an abbreviated fur bikini as for Ray Harryhausen’s wonderful stop-motion dinosaurs. A rare big-budget venture from Hammer Films, this 1966 version of the 1940 Victor Mature classic One Million B.C. is set in a fantasised prehistory where Caucasian cavemen coexist with dinosaurs. Loana (Welch) of the Shell People teaches Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rock Tribe that harmonious cooperation on the beach is a better way of life than rule-of-the-mightiest savagery in caves.
Every quarter of an hour, the gibberish-spouting ("Akita akita"), skin-wearing, remarkably clean cave folk are inconvenienced by special effects: a giant sea turtle, a hungry Allosaur, a Triceratops/Iguanodon battle, a Pterodactyl that wants to feed Raquel to its chicks, a major volcanic upheaval. Poster icon Welch gets stiff competition from a lithe Martine Beswick in a cat fight, and the camp goings-on are given real screen presence by gorgeous, primitive Canary Isles locations and an epic score from Mario Nascimbene.
On the DVD: One Million Years B.C. arrives on DVD with minimal extras: a wonderfully ballyhoo-intensive trailer, plus nice little retrospective chats with Welch and Harryhausen. The picture is an anamorphic print of the original 1.85:1 ratio, and sound is Dolby mono.--Kim Newman
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Hammer's first journey back to prehistoric times is a rip-roaring exercise in sustained excitement.
Director Don Chaffey and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen do for dinosaurs what they so brilliantly did for mythological Greece three years previously in Jason and the Argonauts.
The magnified spider and lizard shots can surely be forgiven, as we are taken to new heights of technical proficiency. OK, so the likes of Jurassic Park, etc. have since eclipsed everything that has gone before, but this must certainly rank as a classic of it's kind. Surely this is the British equivalent of King Kong !
We follow Tumak as he is banished from his tribe and left to wonder the wilderness alone. He is soon up against a giant turtle, and becomes the hero of the shell people, fronted by the ampled proportioned Raquel Welch. However, their troubles are only just beginning, as Tumak's old tribe catch up with him and his new found friends, and begin an onslaught of mayhem interspersed with dinosaur battles and a tremendous climactic volcanic eruption.
The rich technicolor photography and exotic locations suitably compliment each other. That this lush travelogue is set in a time of violent confrontation only adds to it's timeless charm.
Prepare to be thrilled.
Director Don Chaffey and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen do for dinosaurs what they so brilliantly did for mythological Greece three years previously in Jason and the Argonauts.
The magnified spider and lizard shots can surely be forgiven, as we are taken to new heights of technical proficiency. OK, so the likes of Jurassic Park, etc. have since eclipsed everything that has gone before, but this must certainly rank as a classic of it's kind. Surely this is the British equivalent of King Kong !
We follow Tumak as he is banished from his tribe and left to wonder the wilderness alone. He is soon up against a giant turtle, and becomes the hero of the shell people, fronted by the ampled proportioned Raquel Welch. However, their troubles are only just beginning, as Tumak's old tribe catch up with him and his new found friends, and begin an onslaught of mayhem interspersed with dinosaur battles and a tremendous climactic volcanic eruption.
The rich technicolor photography and exotic locations suitably compliment each other. That this lush travelogue is set in a time of violent confrontation only adds to it's timeless charm.
Prepare to be thrilled.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
There is an unrated version of this film which is edited; for example, in the caverns where our heroes take refuge up a tree, they secretly bear witness to cannibal apes kill and eat one of their own tribe members. And this edited scene, if left in, would have made sense of the cavern's decor of ape skulls.
I also watched the version from the HAMMER COLLECTION and this scene (as well as others) was not cut from the film. I watched the Hammer version on my 42inch plasma, and the picture and colour quality were great.
Unless you are very squeamish, please get the Hammer version. The DVD version to avoid is the one with the blue background featuring a close-up of Raquel Welch, who admittedly looks a lot more stunning in this picture cover than Hammer's. John Anglos.
I also watched the version from the HAMMER COLLECTION and this scene (as well as others) was not cut from the film. I watched the Hammer version on my 42inch plasma, and the picture and colour quality were great.
Unless you are very squeamish, please get the Hammer version. The DVD version to avoid is the one with the blue background featuring a close-up of Raquel Welch, who admittedly looks a lot more stunning in this picture cover than Hammer's. John Anglos.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Raquel at her best, this film will stand the test of time, great effects,and stunning girls there is not a lot of dialog( makes a change from all the bad language of films of today) but who cares..you just consentrate on the bevvy of beauties...who needs words..The two tribes create the good and bad in people..no differant from to-day....If you missed it.."GO GET IT NOW"
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one million years b.c.
Beautiful women-action-scenery and dinosaur action by the legendary ray harryhausen,what more could you ask for,this film was made on a budget of just over £400. Read more
Published 4 months ago by STEVE FULLER
One million years BC
I bought this film as my collection was rather short of Raquel Welch. However the film has not stood the test of time and she is the only good thing about the film.
Published on 12 April 2009 by Mr. A. J. Doggett
BIT OF A GIGGLE
It's 40 years old and shows it. Raquel Welch in a rabbit fur bikini should be enough to warrant viewing but the film, by today's standards, is pretty basic stuff. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2007 by Nevs
Raquel Welch was not designed by Ray Harryhausen?
Think of "Forbidden Planet" (1956) and you think of Anne Francis. There were space movies before this and after this yet Ann Francis is the definitive space babe. Read more
Published on 2 May 2005 by bernie
The 60's
I saw this movie when I was a kid and got fascinated by the special effects. Of course you can't compare this film to Jurasic Park. Read more
Published on 24 April 2005
History....who cares?
Although Ms.Welch has often since been quoted as saying she hates the film, and although it IS historically INcorrect, there's no doubting that "One Million Years B.C. Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2002 by trini
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