{"id":17794,"date":"2011-06-07T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=17794"},"modified":"2024-05-10T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T00:05:39","slug":"one-million-years-b-c-1966","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=17794","title":{"rendered":"One Million Years B.C. (1966)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;This is a story of long, long ago &#8212; when the world was just beginning.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Poster-201x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Poster-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Poster-86x128.png 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Poster-181x270.png 181w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Poster.png 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA caveman (John Richardson) banished from his brutal, dark-haired tribe stumbles upon the peaceful, blonde Shell Tribe, where the daughter (Raquel Welch) of the chief falls in love with him after he protects her from a dinosaur attack.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cross-Class Romance<\/li>\n<li>Historical Drama<\/li>\n<li>Prehistoric Times<\/li>\n<li>Raquel Welch Films<\/li>\n<li>Ray Harryhausen Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary accurately labels this &#8220;Hammer Studios remake of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=2146\">Hal Roach&#8217;s 1940 film<\/a> &#8230; among the silliest, campiest, and dullest of the ludicrous caveman genre&#8221; &#8212; noting that &#8220;the major appeal&#8221; is undoubtedly &#8220;the scantily clad Raquel Welch:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch-1024x581.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch-1024x581.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch-128x73.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch-1536x872.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch-476x270.png 476w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Welch.png 1799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; whose poster from this film adorned the walls of teenage boys worldwide back in 1966&#8243; (and earned revived notoriety when it played an essential role in <em>The Shawshank Redemption<\/em>). It&#8217;s also enjoyed by fans of the great Ray Harryhausen, whose stop-motion animation of several different dinosaurs &#8212; including a scene in which Welch is &#8220;carried off by a pterodactyl&#8221; &#8212; remains the film&#8217;s primary legitimate selling point (though it unfortunately [?] simply adds to the film&#8217;s ridiculous ahistoricity). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl-1024x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl-1536x861.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl-482x270.png 482w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Pterodactyl.png 1821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s astonishing to contemplate the fact that producer Michael Carreras rewrote a script that was &#8220;conceived by <em>three<\/em> writers&#8221;, given that there&#8217;s <u>no dialogue<\/u> (other than characters occasionally grunting each other&#8217;s names) &#8212; what could they possibly have been working on?? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still-1024x588.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"368\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still-1024x588.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still-128x73.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still-768x441.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still-1536x881.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still-470x270.png 470w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-BC-Still.png 1821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite its many shortcomings, however, at least this campy remake isn&#8217;t quite as deathly dull as its predecessor &#8212; though that&#8217;s really not meant as an endorsement of any kind. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ray Harryhausen&#8217;s stop-motion effects<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/One-Million-Years-Harryhausen2-1.png 1817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, I suppose so, simply to see the film that launched a (hundred) thousand bedroom posters &#8212; but be forewarned that it&#8217;s a campy slog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060782\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stomptokyo.com\/movies\/o\/one-million-years-bc.html\">Stomp Tokyo Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitallyobsessed.com\/displaylegacy.php?ID=5786\">Digitally Obsessed Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1148one.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/sciencefiction\/one-million-years-b.c.-1966.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/85711\/one-million-years-b-c#articles-reviews?articleId=88923\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is a story of long, long ago &#8212; when the world was just beginning.&#8221; Synopsis: A caveman (John Richardson) banished from his brutal, dark-haired tribe stumbles upon the peaceful, blonde Shell Tribe, where the daughter (Raquel Welch) of the chief falls in love with him after he protects her from a dinosaur attack. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Cross-Class Romance Historical Drama Prehistoric Times Raquel Welch Films Ray Harryhausen Films Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary accurately labels this &#8220;Hammer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=17794\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17794"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96512,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17794\/revisions\/96512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}