One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Director:

Don Chaffey

Writers:

Michael Carreras (screenplay)
Mickell Novack (adapted from an original screenplay by) ...
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Release Date:

21 February 1967 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

This is the way it was.

Plot:

Caveman Tumak is banished from his savage tribe. He finds a brief home among a group of gentle seacoast...

Plot Keywords:

Tribe | Caveman | Volcano | Prehistoric | Stabbed In The Ear

Cast

Raquel Welch	...	Loana
John Richardson	...	Tumak
Percy Herbert	...	Sakana
Robert Brown	...	Akhoba
Martine Beswick	...	Nupondi
Jean Wladon	...	Ahot
Lisa Thomas	...	Sura
Malya Nappi	...	Tohana
Richard James	...	Young Rock Man
William Lyon Brown	...	Payto
Frank Hayden	...	1st Rock Man
Terence Maidment	...	1st Shell Man
Micky De Rauch	...	1st Shell Girl
Yvonne Horner	...	Ullah
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
James Payne	...	One of the cave people (uncredited)

Directed by
Don Chaffey

Writing credits
Michael Carreras		(screenplay)
Mickell Novack		(adapted from an original screenplay by) &
George Baker		(adapted from an original screenplay by) &
Joseph Frickert		(adapted from an original screenplay by)

Produced by
Michael Carreras	....	producer
Aida Young	....	associate producer
Hal Roach	....	associate producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Mario Nascimbene

Cinematography by
Wilkie Cooper		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Tom Simpson

Art Direction by
Robert Jones

Costume Design by
Carl Toms

Makeup Department
Olga Angelinetta	....	hairdressing supervisor
Wally Schneiderman	....	makeup supervisor

Production Management
John Wilcox	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Dennis Bertera	....	assistant director (as Denis Bertera)
Colin Lord	....	second assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Kenneth McCallum Tait	....	assistant art director
Bill Beavis	....	scenic artist (uncredited)
Colin Monk	....	draughtsman (uncredited)

Sound Department
Roy Baker	....	sound editor
Alfred Cox	....	sound editor
A.W. Lumkin	....	recording director
Bill Rowe	....	sound mixer
Len Shilton	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
George Blackwell	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Ray Harryhausen	....	special visual effects creator
Bob Cuff	....	matte painter (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
David Harcourt	....	camera operator
Jack Mills	....	cameraman: second unit
Steve Birtles	....	gaffer (uncredited)
Pierre Luigi	....	still photographer (uncredited)
Ken Nicholson	....	clapper loader (uncredited)
Ronnie Pilgrim	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ivy Baker	....	wardrobe mistress

Editorial Department
James Needs	....	supervising editor
Robert C. Dearberg	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Philip Martell	....	music supervisor
Mario Nascimbene	....	composer: special musical effects

Other crew
Les Bowie	....	prologue designer
Gladys Goldsmith	....	continuity
Marjorie Lavelly	....	continuity (as Marjory Lavelly)
John Trehy	....	production accountant (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Associated British-Pathé (presents)
• Hammer Film Productions
• Seven Arts Productions (uncredited)

Distributors

• Associated British-Pathé (1966) (UK) (theatrical)
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1967) (USA) (theatrical)
• Warner-Pathé Distributors (1966) (UK) (theatrical) (released through) (as Warner-Pathe Distributors Limited)
• American Broadcasting Company (ABC) (1970) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• Warner Home Video (1989) (UK) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2002) (UK) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Egymillió évvel ezelött (Hungary) [hu]
Eine Million Jahre vor unserer Zeit (West Germany) [de]
Ena ekatommyrio hronia p.H. (Greece) [el]
Giganternas kamp (Sweden) [sv]
Hace un millón de años (Spain) [es]
Milion lat przed nasza era (Poland) [pl]
Miljoona vuotta eKr. (Finland) [fi]
O kataklysmos (Greece) (reissue title) [el]
Quando o Mundo Nasceu (Portugal) [pt]
Un milione di anni fa (Italy) [it]
Un millón de años A.C. (Venezuela) [es]
Un million d'années avant J.C. (France) [fr]

Runtime:

100 min | USA:91 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Canada:G (Nova Scotia) | Sweden:15 | Singapore:PG | UK:PG (video rating) | UK:A (original rating) | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Lago Verde, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain

Company:

Associated British-Pathé

Trivia:

This was Hammer's 100th production.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Ceratosaurus was extinct when Triceratops existed, and they wouldn't have been in a situation to fight each other. Also, Ceratosaurus was much smaller than depicted in the film.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Gunan il guerriero (1982)

Still holds up

Hammer's biggest grossing movie. DVD review.

Two tribes fight each other long, long ago.

What I liked most about this movie was the long silent sequences. There's plenty of special effects including lots of dinosaurs, a giant turtle (when Welch first appears), a volcanic eruption, and lots of beautiful women (wearing makeup). That scene where the old man gets pushed into a pit was shocking. Probably Welch's most famous role. Best scene: that flying dinosaur catching up Welch. A funnier alternative to this movie is Caveman.

One million years BC is an enjoyable though inaccurate historical movie.