I look upon this film like this : England won the World Cup in the same year and as far as I know much of the video footage available of the final (complete match) is in monochrome, with odd moments around the match filmed in colour i.e. the celebrations, the presentation of the cup etc. Video tape in colour was too expensive at the time for the BBC and most great sporting events were video taped in black and white.
The great merit of England's performance has never been devalued because it was filmed using poor black and white film.
Might I say that this film was state of the art at the time, in colour, with solid British actors as support for the most shapely of female forms in Raquel Welch. Minimum of dialogue--- I cant complain at the lack of subtitles--- excellent sets whether in the desert or coastline and special effects by the great Ray Harryhausen.
Yes the creature features are rather lame when viewed against today's cgi's but in context they don't look out of place in the film and the story line just rolled along nicely given what it is.
So avoid this if you want special effects in the league of '2012', 'The Day After Tomorrow' or any Arnie film for example. This is just a nice little example of 60's memorabilia which spawned countless imitations featuring scantily clad aspiring actors but there was only one Raquel Welch..... well there is also only one Salma Hayek...... Marilyn Monroe..... Claudia Cardinale.....
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Genre | Adventure |
Format | Blu-ray, PAL |
Contributor | Robert Brown, Raquel Welch, Don Chaffey, John Richardson, Percy Herbert |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 36 minutes |
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A fantasy adventure from the prehistoric times. Raquel Welch and John Richardson fight for their love and their lives against the dinosaurs (brought to life by Ray Harryhausen's ground-breaking effects).
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- Language : English
- Package Dimensions : 17.6 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm; 70 Grams
- Director : Don Chaffey
- Media Format : Blu-ray, PAL
- Run time : 1 hour and 36 minutes
- Release date : 7 March 2018
- Actors : John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Raquel Welch
- Studio : StudioCanal
- ASIN : B07895XFSD
- Country of origin : Australia
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 4,431 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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rob stirling
5.0 out of 5 stars
For 1966 this was top class.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2018Verified Purchase
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Spike Owen
4.0 out of 5 stars
What say you fuzzy britches?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 April 2016Verified Purchase
For their 100th release, Hammer Films remade the 1940 cavemen groaner One Million B.C. It would prove to be a roaring box office success, whilst simultaneously making Raquel Welch an iconic poster girl and Ray Harryhausen an even bigger hero.
Plot is slight. Two tribes exist in prehistoric times, the Rock People and the Shell People. The former are more aggressive and basic, the latter more forward and assured. Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rocks and Loana (Welch) wind up together, fighting prejudices and lots of giant beasties! Hooray!
That's really it, the message is clear but ultimately we are here for the dinosaurs and giant creatures (well OK, the scantily clad cave dwellers as well), with Harryhausen once again showing why he was a legend in his field of animation. With good fights, a bit of sexy sizzle and a volcanic finale, it's all good really.
It's no history lesson of course, but as Harryhausen was wont to say, they wasn't making a film for history professors! 7/10
Plot is slight. Two tribes exist in prehistoric times, the Rock People and the Shell People. The former are more aggressive and basic, the latter more forward and assured. Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rocks and Loana (Welch) wind up together, fighting prejudices and lots of giant beasties! Hooray!
That's really it, the message is clear but ultimately we are here for the dinosaurs and giant creatures (well OK, the scantily clad cave dwellers as well), with Harryhausen once again showing why he was a legend in his field of animation. With good fights, a bit of sexy sizzle and a volcanic finale, it's all good really.
It's no history lesson of course, but as Harryhausen was wont to say, they wasn't making a film for history professors! 7/10
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William Hall
3.0 out of 5 stars
Raquel, the glamorous primitive.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2018Verified Purchase
I remember this film coming out in the sixties and it was greeted with derision even then, mostly because of the gross inconsistency of historical details. The tribes wear hide and wool, but where are the animals to provide them? Dinosaurs and pterodactyls, together with goats and warthogs, appear out of nowhere. The character of the land changes according to the needs of the storyline, and there's bags of glamour among the ladies.
However this was made for fun. Ray Harryhausen's creatures, once much admired, seem quaint , but there is a scrap between two pterodactyls towards the end of the film which is pretty remarkable.....and the earthquake is well done.
You might like to fast forward for the first half hour since there's no dialogue. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that nobody seems to have discovered swimming before Raquel Welch takes a dip.
More of a guilty pleasure than a silly bore.
However this was made for fun. Ray Harryhausen's creatures, once much admired, seem quaint , but there is a scrap between two pterodactyls towards the end of the film which is pretty remarkable.....and the earthquake is well done.
You might like to fast forward for the first half hour since there's no dialogue. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that nobody seems to have discovered swimming before Raquel Welch takes a dip.
More of a guilty pleasure than a silly bore.
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Darth Maciek
4.0 out of 5 stars
Raquel Welch's bikini, Martine Beswick's claws and Ray Harryhausen's dinosaurs - what can we ask more for?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 November 2013Verified Purchase
I watched this film with genuine pleasure and I am glad that I finally discovered this great classic - even if objectively speaking this is a very silly movie. Below, more of my impressions with some very limited SPOILERS.
This adventure film about prehistoric people doesn't even try to stick to any kind of realism - in the year 1 000 000 BC modern humans didn't exist yet and as for the sex appeal of proto-human "Homo erectus" chicks, well, I definitely don't even want to go there... Dinosaurs of course were also extinct in those times, already since 64 million years - and the bikini worn by Ms Welch (even if it is supposedly made in deer-skin) wouldn't appear before XXth century... But all of this has of course no importance - this is just an adventure film, having absolutely no other pretensions that to entertain.
The story is basically about an exile from one tribe of prehistoric people who finds refuge with another, more advanced tribe and obtains there a bride - actually, now that I think of it, it becomes clear that Jean-Jacques Annaud copied this general story line into his own (much better) "Quest of fire" film. Of course there will be some further complications, but really, the story doesn't really matter. The two things that make all the interest of this film are the chicks and the dinos.
Being a terminal screen junkie and having watched uncounted thousands of films in my life, I already saw a great lot of beautiful actresses - but few films can equal this one in which we can admire not one but TWO incredibly hot and sexy beauties: Raquel Welch as gentle Loana and Martine Beswick as bitchy hellcat Nupondi, both of them wearing little clothes. Even better, at one moment they get into a nasty catfight... Every scene in which even one of them appears is a splendor - and if you think that Raquel Welch is THE star in this film, well, wait until you see Nupondi dancing!
The dinosaurs in this film are amongst the best creations of the great Ray Harryhausen and anybody who liked his creatures in Sinbad films will be delighted to discover here the same kind of stop-motion magic.
Chicks in bikinis vs. dinos in stop motion film - can it get any better? A film without any pretension other than to give good time to its public, more suitable for watching amongst guys, with a mandatory consumption of beer a condition to appreciate it more. Enjoy!
This adventure film about prehistoric people doesn't even try to stick to any kind of realism - in the year 1 000 000 BC modern humans didn't exist yet and as for the sex appeal of proto-human "Homo erectus" chicks, well, I definitely don't even want to go there... Dinosaurs of course were also extinct in those times, already since 64 million years - and the bikini worn by Ms Welch (even if it is supposedly made in deer-skin) wouldn't appear before XXth century... But all of this has of course no importance - this is just an adventure film, having absolutely no other pretensions that to entertain.
The story is basically about an exile from one tribe of prehistoric people who finds refuge with another, more advanced tribe and obtains there a bride - actually, now that I think of it, it becomes clear that Jean-Jacques Annaud copied this general story line into his own (much better) "Quest of fire" film. Of course there will be some further complications, but really, the story doesn't really matter. The two things that make all the interest of this film are the chicks and the dinos.
Being a terminal screen junkie and having watched uncounted thousands of films in my life, I already saw a great lot of beautiful actresses - but few films can equal this one in which we can admire not one but TWO incredibly hot and sexy beauties: Raquel Welch as gentle Loana and Martine Beswick as bitchy hellcat Nupondi, both of them wearing little clothes. Even better, at one moment they get into a nasty catfight... Every scene in which even one of them appears is a splendor - and if you think that Raquel Welch is THE star in this film, well, wait until you see Nupondi dancing!
The dinosaurs in this film are amongst the best creations of the great Ray Harryhausen and anybody who liked his creatures in Sinbad films will be delighted to discover here the same kind of stop-motion magic.
Chicks in bikinis vs. dinos in stop motion film - can it get any better? A film without any pretension other than to give good time to its public, more suitable for watching amongst guys, with a mandatory consumption of beer a condition to appreciate it more. Enjoy!
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Robyn B. Mcgorm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Raquel Welch
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2012Verified Purchase
Raquel Welch was a beautiful woman and talented. This movie was set in the early days and the makings are better than some of to-days movies. Dinosaurs and the living conditions are worth looking at, its a classic and worth buying for your collections.The story line is normal and the good looking girl and boy find each other. The special effects are breathtaking and worth watching.
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