One Million B.C.

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One Million B.C.

1940,

1h 20m,

Sci-Fi

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In the survival-of-the-fittest mentality of the Rock tribe, the strongest receive the best of everything, while the scraps are left for the weak. When Tumak fails to protect what is his from the tribe's leader, Akhoba, the Rock people send Tumak into exile. Discovered by Loana, a member of the peaceful Shell tribe, Tumak reluctantly joins her strangely kind people. Tumak struggles to adapt, but Loana will not give up on changing his savage ways.

Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Sep 18, 2021

3/4

A box office smash in its day, this prehistoric picture remained highly influential after its release, and its visual effects footage proved so potent that it was employed in countless other movies over the course of the next three decades.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Nov 5, 2006

C

If you can dig all the nonsense, you might find it pleasing as silly entertainment.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 4, 2005

3/5

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Sep 9, 2004

3/5

Not great and it never was, but it's interesting.

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Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Feb 25, 2004

3/5

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Hermione R

Feb 8, 2018

Carol Landis carries this film with a good supporting cast, but her performance is certainly a strong point. Probably not accurate - decades later but certainly a fun & easy to understand story.

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Leia W

Aug 26, 2014

One of the great adventure films ever with a simple plot of "what it must've been like living way back when" told with the by now antiquated special effects. Still it's a rousing tale told with vigor, expected to garner the wow factor from the outset, which it does. Of course it would be easy to sit back, sneer and call out the obvious inaccuracies of the story - too many to number - or even the age of the piece, but my answer to that would be "wet blanket!" or "killjoy!" What film is ever truly accurate? Huh? This is nothing but a fun work. If you can remember the eleven year old inside you, before you got to be all sophisticated and everything (with your automatic ice cube dispensing refrigerators and your French bidets!), this is as good as King Kong. Warning: Several animals were hurt in the making of this! We're talking about the 1930's here, before we were advanced enough to know better.

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Hal Roach

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Hal Roach Jr.

Director

Victor Mature

Tumak

Carole Landis

Loana

Lon Chaney Jr.

Akhoba

Conrad Nagel

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Synopsis

In the survival-of-the-fittest mentality of the Rock tribe, the strongest receive the best of everything, while the scraps are left for the weak. When Tumak fails to protect what is his from the tribe's leader, Akhoba, the Rock people send Tumak into exile. Discovered by Loana, a member of the peaceful Shell tribe, Tumak reluctantly joins her strangely kind people. Tumak struggles to adapt, but Loana will not give up on changing his savage ways.

Director: Hal Roach, Hal Roach Jr.
Producer: Hal Roach
Screenwriter: George Baker, Mickell Novack, Joseph Frickert
Distributor: United Artists
Production Co: Hal Roach Studios Inc.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 5, 1940, Original
Release Date (DVD): Oct 31, 2017
Runtime: 1h 20m

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