Movies
One Million B.C. (UA 1940, Victor Mature, Carole Landis)
A look at prehistoric sociology as Victor Mature, an outcast from the warrior Klang people, finds a home with the peace-loving Shell people along with pretty Neanderthal Landis. The romance lifts eyebrows in the tribe, but the warring clans join together at the end for survival. D. W. Griffith was hired to direct, but his contribution is uncertain.
Producer Hal Roach used pioneer director D. W. Griffith’s 1912 silent, Man’s Genesis, for inspiration in making One Million B.C., which Roach helmed. Griffith, rumored to have helped with the direction, served as a consultant on the film.
Remade by Hammer Studios in 1967 with Ray Harryhausen effects and Raquel Welch in a bikini.
Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Score; Best Special Effects.
production details
USA | United Artists | 80 minutes | 1940
Director: D.W. Griffith, Hal Roach
Producer: Hal Roach
Cinematography: Norbert F. Brodine
Editor: Ray Snyder
Music: Dolores Hart
Script: George Baker, Joseph Frickert, Grover Jones, Mickell Novack
Art Direction: Charles D. Hall
cast
Victor Mature as Tumak
Carole Landis as Loana
Lon Chaney Jr. as Akhoba
Mamo Clark as Nupondi
Inez Palange as Tohana
Harry Wilson as Rock Person
John Northpole as Rock Person
John Hubbard as Ohtao
Edgar Edwards as Skakana
Nigel De Brulier as Peytow
Conrad Nagel as Narrator
Jacqueline Dalya as Ataf
Mary Gale Fisher as Wandi
Norman Budd as Rock Person
Lorraine Rivero as Rock Person
Harold Howard as Rock Person
Ricca Allen as Rock Person
Adda Gleason as Rock Person
Edward Coxen as Rock Person
Ben Hall as Shell Person
Creighton Hale as Shell Person
Audrey Manners as Shell Person
Rosemary Theby as Shell Person
Patricia Pope as Shell Person
Chuck Stubbs as Shell Person
Jimmy Boudwin as Shell Person
Ora May Carlson as Shell Person
James Coppedge as Rock Person
Kay Frye as Shell Person
Betty Greco as Rock Person
Aida Hernandez as Rock Person
Robert Kent as Mountain Guide
Boots Lebaron as Shell Person
Jean Porter as Shell Person – Loana’s Sister
Dick Simmons as Shell Person
Henry Sylvester as Rock Person
Frank Tinajero as Rock Person
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