Product Description

In this vivid view of prehistoric life, a man from the mean-spirited Rock People (John Richardson) is banished from his home. He soon finds himself among the kind, gentle Shell People and falls in love with one of their loving tribeswomen (Raquel Welch). The twosome decide to face the world together, cut off from all tribal support, alone in a deadly world of hideous beast and earthshattering volcanic eruptions. The film's pioneering special effects have made it a true science-fiction classic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2389 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-03-09
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 91 minutes

Amazon.com
Raquel Welch in a two-piece fur bikini. That and the title is pretty much all anyone needs to know. If that indeed isn't enough, there are the dinosaurs of technician-artist Ray Harryhausen (along with some superimposed iguanas), and a prologue that tells you all you want to know about this "brutal world." Want more? There are volcanoes, barehanded wrestling with warthogs, and rival, subhuman, cannibalistic tribes--Lord, the list goes on and on! The portrait of humankind isn't the most flattering: we're petty, greedy, we grunt a lot, and we don't play well with others. Welch portrays a cavewoman from the tribe of the Blondes trying to make a life for herself with an outcast from the tribe of the Brunettes, which doesn't sit well with anybody. --Keith Simanton

Customer Reviews

If you like older movies?
This movie wasn't too bad. It's about a caveman getting cast out of a male dominated, barbaric, black haired clan. Then stumbling onto another gentle (but able to protect themselves), more advanced, blond clan where he finds a woman (Welch) and they fall in love. He evenually gets cast out of that clan he, then, takes Welch and goes back to his own. He finds his brother had tried to kill the leader (their father), made him blind and lame, and has now taken over the clan. Welch goes back to her clan and gets help as there is about to be a battle. When the final battle starts, an earthquake rips up the land killing many from both sides. After all is over, the blond and black haired people join to form one clan. Of course, the love birds get to stay together.

This movie is a classic 60's portrail of how women were in movies. But in this one the women fought back so there wasn't too many damsal in distress scenes. Everyone is cavemen but they also have trimed beards and styled hair, if kind of frizzy. The monsters are lizards made to look gigantic. There is even a huge sea turtle that is supposed to be scary, but... well, falls short of the mark.

I'm the kind of person that can look past the bad effects and take it for the story. I think the story wasn't too bad so I couldn't bring myself to give it a 2 star.

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this movie was not too bad for an old b rated caveman movie if you liked caveman or quest for fire you may like this movie

Turn your brain off and have fun.
I'm going to be the first ever reviewer not to mention the spectacular sight of Raquel Welch in her primitive bikini. Oops. Actually that seems to be obligatory. Now that we have that out of the way . . .

It's also almost obligatory to comment on what every third-grader knows, that humans and dinosaurs never co-existed, and that recognizable modern humans were not around in 1,000,000 B.C. No need to belabor the point, but you have to wonder if the moviemakers themselves were really this ignorant, if they were just showing their contempt for the public, or if they trusted moviegoers to have this kind of basic information, and were doing an intentional spoof.

The film is still a lot of fun. Just think of it as a fantasy, taking place in a world that never was, and enjoy the adventure. It's an exciting story, and you start to sympathize with some initially unsympathetic characters. I am a little baffled by the praise for the special effects, which look kind of cheesy to me, but maybe I need to watch it on a larger screen.