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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:18 am Post subject: One Million B.C. (1940) |
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[Also released as: "The Cave Dwellers", "Man and His Mate", "The Cave Dweller and His Mate"]
A bold experiment in film making by director Hal Roach, with assistance by D. W. Griffith. The making of this film about life among prehistoric men has an interesting history of its own. In 1912 D. W. Griffith made a film called "Man's Genesis", concerning life among the cavemen. No dinosaurs were involved in the story. It was simply intended as a parable about reason versus non-reason.
Years later, Griffith's friend, Hal Roach, employed Griffith to provide minor assistance with the production of "One Million B.C.", a stone-age adventure story partly inspired by Griffiths earlier film. In addition to doing some of the casting, Griffith directed Carol Landis' screen test, and supervised many of the special effects scenes involving the lizards. Before the completion of the film, Roach and Griffith had a falling out, and Griffith elected to have his name removed from the screen credits.
"One Million B.C." was Victor Mature's first major role, playing Tumack the caveman, fighting stone age perils to protect his tribe (lead by Lon Chaney, Jr.) and his mate (Carol Landis). Although the special effects area not nearly so impressive as those in "King Kong", done seven years earlier, they are effective in their use of enlarged lizards to depicted the dinosaurs.
In fact, they are so well done they inspired countless filmmakers in later years to borrow the monster footage.
The plot is extremely episodic, but generally speaking it involves (a) Tumack's expulsion from the Rock tribe, (b) his journey to the sea shore where he meets the Shell tribe, (c) his romance with Luana (Landis), (d) and the eventual unification of the two tribes after an earthquake devastates the area.
The film is a true novelty that should be seen by sincere film buffs. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)
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orzel-w Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Victor Mature was that era's idea of "buff".
(The 1940s, that is... not 1 million B.C.) _________________ ...or not...
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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Dare I lodge my usual complaint with such films?
I dare!
This desperately required stop-motion animation. ![Rolling Eyes](images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif) |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Wait a minute!
You mean those dinosaurs were NOT stop motion? They were just . . . LIZARDS!
Boy, did they have me fooled . . . ![Shocked](images/smiles/icon_eek.gif) _________________ ____________
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