Caveman (1981) on Netflix
In the Stone Age, the scrawny Atouk desires Lana, who is the mate of Tonda, the tribe's leader and a bully. Banished with his friend Lar, Atouk joins a band of misfits.
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Plot summary
Atouk is a scrawny caveman in a Stone Age tribe ruled by Tonda, a strong bully. Atouk lusts after Lana, Tonda's mate, and for this he is cast out. His friend Lar is banished with him. The pair meets Tala, a cavewoman, and her blind father Gog, whom they pull from a tar pit. Tala comes to feel an unrequited affection for Atouk. They fall in with outcasts and face hungry dinosaurs.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Caveman (1981)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Special-effects artist Jim Danforth left the production about two-thirds of the way through after the Directors Guild of America blocked the on-screen co-director credit he had been promised, so his name does not appear on the finished film.
- At her audition Shelley Long said that she did not speak any English, and she responded to everything the casters asked her with grunts.
- Co-stars Barbara Bach and Ringo Starr met for the first time on the set of Caveman and married just over a year later.
