Cinematography:
Norbert BrodineComposer:
Werner R. HeymannCast:
Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr., Conrad Nagel, John Hubbard, Nigel De Brulier, Mamo Clark, Edgar Edwards, Jacqueline Dalya, Creighton Hale (more)Plots(1)
Producer Hal Roach ventures into dinosaur country--with the help of spectacle expert D.W. Griffith--to create this ambitious prehistoric adventure. It's a sweeping saga of inter-evolutionary romance as Tumac (Victor Mature), of the Neanderthal-like Rock People, falls for beautiful Loana (Carole Landis) of the more advanced Shell People. In addition to their disapproving tribes--and the problem of Tumac's bad table manners--the young lovers must contend with erupting volcanoes, earthquakes, prehistoric monsters, and other hazards of life on a still-forming planet, including Tumac's angry father (Lon Chaney, Jr.). A modern professor (Conrad Nagel) patiently explains their trials and tribulations in a clever framing device. The dinosaur scenes (using actual lizards filmed in miniature backdrops) were recycled in numerous cheap monster films in the 1940s and 1950s. The story was remade in 1967 with Raquel Welch in the skimpy fur bikini that helped establish her as one of the moment's top sex symbols. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Victor Mature
USA
Best movies:
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Safari (1956)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Carole Landis
USA
Best movies:
A Day at the Races (1937)
A Star Is Born (1937)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Lon Chaney Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Love Is News (1937)
Conrad Nagel
USA
Best movies:
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
London After Midnight (1927)
John Hubbard
USA
Best movies:
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
The Cimarron Kid (1952)
You and Me (1938)
Nigel De Brulier
UK
Best movies:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Wings (1927)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Mamo Clark
USA
Best movies:
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
The Hurricane (1937)
One Million B.C. (1940)
Edgar Edwards
UK
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
Dark Victory (1939)
Jacqueline Dalya
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
One Million B.C. (1940)
Creighton Hale
Ireland
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Casablanca (1942)
Rosemary Theby
USA
Best movies:
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
San Francisco (1936)
Our Relations (1936)
Robert Kent
USA
Best movies:
The Phantom Creeps (1949) (TV movie) - a.f.
The Country Girl (1954)
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Jean Porter
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
One Million B.C. (1940)
Harry Wilson
UK
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Dick Simmons
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Easter Parade (1948)
Act of Violence (1948)
Adda Gleason
USA
Best movies:
Out of the Past (1947)
One Million B.C. (1940)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
John Northpole
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Citizen Kane (1941)
King Kong (1933)
Captain Blood (1935)
Henry Sylvester
USA
Best movies:
Beau Geste (1939)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
Life with Father (1947)