One Million Years B.C. (1966) on Netflix
Approved19661h 40mAdventureFantasy
Banished from the Rock Tribe's cave by his father, chief Akhoba, after a quarrel over meat, Tumak wanders the desert. Loana, of the coastal Shell Tribe, nurses him back to health.
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Plot summary
The Rock Tribe lives in caves under its chief, Akhoba, and his sons Tumak and Sakana are rivals. The men kill a warthog and carry it home, and when Tumak quarrels with his father over the meat, Akhoba drives him out into the desert. Tumak survives encounters with prehistoric creatures and collapses on a beach, where women of the Shell Tribe, who live on the coast, see him. Loana, the chief's daughter, helps drive an Archelon back into the sea and has him brought to their village, whose people are far more advanced than his own. She tends him, and Payto, to whom she is betrothed, becomes jealous. When a small girl is attacked by an Allosaurus, Tumak saves her.
Cast
- Malya Nappias Tohana
- William Lyon Brownas Payto
- Richard Jamesas Young Rock Man
- Frank Haydenas 1st Rock Man
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- Terence Maidmentas 1st Shell Man
- Micky De Rauchas 1st Shell Girl
- Heraclio Niz Mesaas Caveman (uncredited)
- James Payneas One of the Cave People (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Million Years B.C. (1966)
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- Hammer first offered the role of Loana to Ursula Andress, who passed on it over commitments and salary demands; Welch, under contract to Fox, was told by studio president Richard Zanuck she would be loaned out, and said the selling point was six to eight weeks of filming interiors in London.
- As there were no active volcanoes in the Canary Islands, the studio had to construct a 6-7 ft high volcano on the Associated British Picture Corporation's studio back lot, and the eruption, lava explosions and lava flows were composed of wallpaper paste, oatmeal, dry ice and red dye.
- For the shot of the Pteranodon carrying Loana away, the crew had Raquel Welch fall behind a rock, and a model of Welch was substituted during the single second in which she is not visible, then flown off by the model creature.
- Welch said in a 2012 interview that three form-fitting bikinis were made for her by costume designer Carl Toms, including two for a wet scene and a fight scene: "Carl just draped me in doe-skin, and I stood there while he worked on it with scissors."
- The publicity photograph of Welch from the film became a best-selling pinup poster and something of a cultural phenomenon, and the iconic image was copied by the artist Tom Chantrell to create the poster promoting the film's theatrical release.
- All the dinosaur models from this film still exist, although the Ceratosaurus and Triceratops were re-purposed for The Valley of Gwangi in 1969, as Gwangi the Allosaurus and the Styracosaurus.
