Sci-Fi Classic Review: ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. (1966)
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- This remake of a 1940 "primitive man" picture demonstrated that Hammer Films was capable of branching out from horror and still being wildly successful. It also doesn't hurt when you have Raquel Welch in a fur bikini.
If you're looking for a "review" in the traditional sense, then let me just say I appreciate this movie. This video, however, is a "review" in the literal sense (using the Miriam-Webster definition "a retrospective view or survey"), in that I'm going over the history of the film and its place in sci-fi cinema history.
In other words, please stop commenting on how my videos aren't what you consider "reviews."
#OneMillionYearsBC #RaquelWelch #HammerFilms
00:00 Intro
01:38 Synopsis
02:33 Production History
03:41 Shameless Self-Promotion
04:23 Casting
06:12 Filming (& the Fur Bikini)
08:02 Release & Legacy
09:10 Opinion & Analysis
12:40 Outro
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I remember when I was 7 telling some other kids at school that cavemen didn't live at the same time as dinosaurs. They didn't believe me because they'd seen them together in "One Million Years B.C." I told them that wasn't a true story and they insisted that it was.
Today the joke is they can't put it on the internet if it isn't true. In the '60s many children had the belief if it wasn't true it wouldn't be in the movies or on TV. It is amazing today how many adults take what's in historical fiction as fact.
I've seen The Flintstones - those kids were right 😂😂😂
being a child in the 1970s and loving ONE MILLION B.C. when it came on the odd Saturday afternoon, I can say I drank up every minute of it in a time when the world moved much slower than today. You sometimes have to remember viewing certain movies etc. in the context of the time they were released to truly understand a time of slower paced pictures.
I am sitting here grinning like an idiot watching you masterfully review one of my all time favorite movies. As a small child, I loved the dinosaurs...older, I came to enjoy Welch in that outfit!
That picture of Raquel was definitely popular, it made it's way into Shawshank prison.
Thanks Eric. Great review. I do remember seeing this as a teenager and loving Harryhausen’s work… after the initial scare of the iguana.
I always love how up-and-coming actresses lament and deride films they made that are the only reason we talk about them now. Ms. Welch did not like the science fiction era part of her career but that is the reason she was considered for roles long after she reached her Hollywood expiration date. Actors who acknowledge their fans and popularity have much longer shelf lives.
"Oogalala?"
"Oogalala! Toomak!"
"Toomak?"
"TOOMAK!"
Probably the best four lines of dialogue ever!
Have fond memories of it from my childhood, with some some parts being stuck in my brain ever since. Now am rewatching it every few years. When it comes to The Clan of the Cave Bear the short answer is that, as usual, the book is better.
I saw this film on TV when I was young and all I remember was Raquel Welch in the fur bikini and dinosaurs. Everything else, meh.
However, in the 80's, another film came out starring Ringo Starr and his future wife Barbara Bach called "Caveman" which spoofed this film. Same non-English dialog (except for one actor), same fur bikini, etc.
I love this film. It was very important to me as a young boy at a formative age :) Ahhh Raquel...
Thank you for the great review!
A similar film, but more engaging is 'Quest for Fire"
I think my favourite early cave-man movie is Paul Blart, mall cop.
There's a forgotten Saturday morning series on TH-cam entitled " Jason Of Star Command-Feature Film Version" which came out the year after Star Wars first premiered: It is an outer space series with a lot of anachronisms in it. As a series I thought it was okay.
"Quest for Fire' is the first movie that is the best version of the 'Caveman Drama' imo
A nice review! It would be nice if you also make a review about the 1971 version of the mysterious island (Omar Sharif acting as Nemo).
Yor Hunter From The Future. This Italian rip features a Tri-stego-cera-saurus-tops, which Yor has to dispactch. One of the best laugh inducing caveman epics committed to film. Take me with you stranger.
There's an urban legend associated with this movie.
It is that there was a movie theater that was located very close to a military base, and....
As long as this movie was playing, every seat in the theater was occupied: By the soldiers of the nearby military base.
Not surprizing in the least, as her other bikini movies got as much "interest" as this one did.
I love that movie 😅
Mrs. Slocombe: Miss Brahms, our sleepwear has arrived.
Mr. Mash: What size are you?
Miss Brahms: Oh, not for me thanks. I never wear anything in bed. I don't like rough things next to my skin.
Mr. Mash: You're lucky you ain't got me in there with ya!
Mrs. Slocombe: You will wear pajamas tonight, Miss Brahms. Suppose there was a fire and you had no clothes on?
Miss Brahms: Ooh, I'd be first to be rescued.
😅
A high school friend of mine had the Rachel Welch poster in his panel van conversion. I'll admit, one girl he dated for a couple months was a knock out. Though, not at the level of our favorite cave woman.
Well, fav after Wilma Flintstone that is... 😁
Wilma over Betty Rubble? Are you high? 😅
@@mikes5637
That was the beginning of the problem right there...
The only suggestion for a future review (as you requested) I can think of: 'The Body Snatcher' with Karloff and Henry Daniell. Directed by Robert Wise. Although I think you'll probably be covering that in your look back at movies from the 1940's. Even as a child I wasn't that enthusiastic about this film. I recognised Percy Herbert immediately in the footage, but Robert Brown really took me by surprise. Brown is a good actor and I wish the Bond series had given him a different characterisation as M. Apparently a female actress in the 1960's hit the big time when she landed a role which was dubbed by the ubiquitous Nikki Van der Zyl.
A slog! It's brilliant. The music is nearly as great as Ray's work.
great video.
The trailer for "Barbie" uses the paleolithic theme to make a toungue in cheek, but valid, point about who Barbie is. I also remember my father explaining that dinosaurs and man did not coexist. It was an important moment to me in my Sputnick Child orientation to my place in the universe. (I did not, do not, believe him.)
The adolescent developmental mileatone of "Who am I" , the basic curiosity of our origins goes to Creation Myths of all societies. The speculation of who we are is part of the Why We are . One Million BC considering our past is certainly on a SciFi par with "The Incredible Shrinking Man" contemplating the infinity of standing here and now as well as "2001-Space Odyssey " looking to the future.
Have you covered "Sleeper (1973)"? "The Stone Tape (1972)"? "Children of the Stones (1977)"? "During Barty's Party (1976)"?
The latter has stuck with me ever since I first saw it nearly 50 years ago. For some reason giant hive-minded rats cropped up a few times in the 1970s. I'm really enjoying your Twilight Zone retrospectives. Great work from you every time. Lovely stuff.
No, but those are all great suggestions to add to the list. Thank you!
What's my favorite "primitive man-style movie"? Quest for Fire by a mile. It was relatively smart, it didn't pretty up its actors, and it was unflinching in its portrayal of humans 80,000 years ago (a realistic time frame, even if anthropologists say the disparity of cultures is not).
It's easy to review One Million Years B.C. Excellent as it has Rachel Welch and her fur bikini. Done.
I'm ashamed to admit that, as a huge film fan, I've never seen this one. "Fantastic Voyage" is one of my guilty pleasure, favorite films. My mother told me she saw both in the theater in '66/'67 and told me that all Raquel did in this film is "suck in her gut".
I do not know if you have already covered this classic, but I will mention it anyway:. "Seven Days To Noon (1950).". It is an obvious pick from me. I think you have already covered "The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)" and "Night of The Demon (1957)".These films were wonderful to see when I was young. Maybe a more in-depth look at this trio of British Sci-Fi/Horror tales would contrast nicely with the predominantly North American led genre.
Those special effects are still cool to me... plus babes 🥰
A slightly watchable movie mostly because Raquel Welch. A definite hit for Hammer Films which should have open their eyes about moving away from the gothic horror genre to more modern tales like Amicus did.
may i ask about doing "Frau im Mond" (1928)?
I'm itching to cover it, and I already have a copy to work from. I can't promise it right away, but it's definitely going to happen.
Please review "Blake's 7" episode by episode - did I mention that already? My memory is imperfect.
I’m not sure if you did or not, but it is on my list, so you probably did.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek Thanks for your reply.
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Lovely to see a review of this sh*te film. Probably one of the most anticipated, profitable and rubbish films ever made by Hammer. The excitement to see this film was tangible, not least of all from my schoolmates. Rumours of nudity fanned the flames of "Must See" in the school playground. The film was complete tat. Munting North American Raquel Welch in a furry bikini, with not so much as a nipple in sight, didn't dissuade kids from queuing-up for hours. I know the film wasn't intended for kids, but Cinemas didn't care.
Who doesn't want to go primal?
Ok, I've never seen this movie, but now I have to, maybe when I'm snowed in with adults beverages.
RE: Hammer Fims, some of which described as, "salacious horror" those are some of my favorites. 🙃 I saw Dracula Has Risen From the Grave as part of a second run double feature ( I don't remember what the other movie was) when I was maybe 7 or 8. Supposedly it's the first film that received a rating, a G by the way. Lol, It is soooo not a G but I loved it. My middle brother who is 4 years older than me was really freaked out about the gore and had to actually drag me out of the theater.
I've seen bits and pieces of 1 Million Years BC but I've never seen She. Would you recommend the latter? Both Raquel and Ursula were early crushes ❤
I suppose Planet of the Apes would be my primitive ( or regressed) man type movie.
I did not mean to imply that I have any sort of problem with “salacious horror.” 😂 I love Hammer’s more unapologetically exploitative horror flicks, and plan to talk about them in the future. It surprises me that it’s taken me this long to cover a Hammer Film, tbh.
As for She, it is a bit more fun imho than one million years b.c.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek lol, TUG, I'm just teasing a little bit, having spent time watching From Here to Paternity , I KNOW you would appreciate Hammer Films. BTW, I thought the clips from the D.W. Griffith movie were very funny. Nicely done.
Hammer horror films were a key building block of my formative years.
I remember a crushing disappointment when I found out that Peter Cushing
didn't actually hunt vampires for a living...
@@indyspotes3310 Wait, he didn’t?!! 😮
While I like this film for nostalgia reasons, having seen it as a youngster in the 70's, my choice for the best "caveman" movie has to be Quest For Fire.
As this was made during the well informed 60's I don't understand the inaccuracy about cavemen and dinosaurs' mutual existence. It seems so old and ignorant Hollywood style - I remember thinking this at the time but I suppose the sight of Raquel Welch's amazing beauty just dismissed all such doubts.
I looked over your list of videos prior to making a suggestion and one of my favorite all time movies (Which I did not see listed but I may have missed it) is:
"This Island Earth" from 1955:
th-cam.com/video/LJlEoM4_uyw/w-d-xo.html
(I always adjust the audio speed down to 0.85% as it sounds too fast when left alone, but that's probably just me) With Rex Reason, Jeff Morrow and Faith Domergue. I have seen something around about this movie but I didn't check again to see if that was something you had put out. If not, what do you think of the first! "man and woman captured by aliens and taken to another planet" space movie?
I enjoyed you review of One Million BC (BCE now) very much!
Thank you for checking to see if I’d covered it before! Above and beyond.
This Island Earth is definitely on my list. I’ve put it up for the Patreon vote a few times, where it always seems to come up short, but I promise I’ll get to it!
I found the synopsis amusing. I half expected it to conclude with " ... turned the stone and looked beneath it; "Peace On Earth" was all it said."
I was ware that Nikki Van der Zyl dubbed a lot of European actresses for English movies but had not heard about this one. I find that hilarious. What is the proper caveperson accent?
The original Plan for the clinax Was an attack of a btontosaur tribe but that was too expencive and would have deleyed the movie Premiere, therefor they chose the volvano erruption as clinax instead.
In support of your thoughts that cavemen movies are part of Science Fiction, there is the newpaper comic Alley Oop. The character was a caveman who lived a caveman life in the comic in the comic from 1932 to 1939. In that year, Oop travels through time when he is abducted by a scientist using a time machine. He then goes on adventures in various times and travels through space.
I think it was Richard Feynman who had a similar experience that @spews1973 had. He told another kid that dinosaurs were extinct in the time of the cavemen and the other kid consulted his father. Based on Alley Oop, Dad said it wasn't true. I don't know when it was, but I remember my sense of reality shifting after reading something and realizing that Alley Oop and the cavemen movies were falsely showing men and dinosaurs interacting.
OOhh "The Land that Time forgot " Doug McClure
Thid film only makes sense if it was set in Marvel's "Savage Land"; a region of Antarctica that exists in a time warp, where creatures from all eras coexist.
I think a better argument than your impassioned speech for why this is sci-fi would be that the cavemen in the movie far exceeded their level of scientific understanding by inventing a fur bikini that kept Raquel Welch from accidentally showing a double feature...
I think movies like this that include dinosaurs fall under fantasy adventure more than sci-fi. Whereas, more serious attempts, like Quest for Fire, would simply fall under "period piece", like any other effort to capture a moment in history.
But as long as I get a cat fight between Martine Beswick and Raquel, I don't care what you call it...
@@BakedBiehn
You bet. I was planning on it when I got back to the house. Plus, this way we can build up expectations. I like to imagine this is how William Castle go his start...
@@BakedBiehn No prob, Biehner. William Castle was the king of promotional shlock.
"Anything to draw a crowd" should have been put on his tombstone.
And, much like William Castle's movies, the advertisement of my intended contribution to
the discussion will likely far outweigh its merits...
How about a review of the corny 1960’s movie Santa Claus conquers the martians. Put it out around Christmas.
You might want to look at Robinson Crusoe on Mars
A much underrated picture, and as accurate as it could be given the limited information we had on Mars at the time.
Is it Sci-Fi? Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie?
John done more than She before this
You’ve done The Fly, The Blob, and The Thing. Will it be Invaders From Mars? Or Not Of This Earth?
I reveal nothing. 😎
I don't remember TUG doing a review of The Blob remake. Am I going crazy here, TUG?
@@indyspotes3310 no, he did the original. TUG is going to do a review on a movie FROM the ‘50s that was remade in the ‘80s. I’m just eliminating the ‘50s movies he’s already done.
@@indyspotes3310 Correct, but I did review the original.
uhh cold weather doesnt cause Tonsilitis
Not exactly, but cold air does dry out your throat, and being exposed to the elements while cold (and wet) does weaken the immune system. That’s why people who are prone to tonsillitis tend to contract it in winter. So while the actual bacteria or virus that causes the infection doesn’t come from being cold, being cold does make you far more susceptible.
By the way, the living skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts weren't real either. Sorry to disillusion you.
A "primitive-man picture" was "decried by some" for it's hinting at man's primate origins. So we have the scientific, the religious, and the showbiz money-makers (Griffith). that's three sides of the coin, and none are right about their subject. The real primitive people had never left a history that would have explained it all to us. Some primitive people had managed to hand down their own written scriptures that explain very little. Simply put, pre-history in literature and film is all speculation, but then the "biblical" in literature and film is equally all speculation. One Million BC (1940) and David and Bathsheba (1951) are both fantasy and maybe science fiction. Neither are historical films. One Million Years BC and The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) are likewise a pair of fantasy epics, which neither have any basis in known history.
4:35: I suggest the gender neutral word "showplayers".
Ah, the days when men were men and women were women....
Disney should remake this in their own woke image...
It would make a great comedy.....
1 Million Years BC was pure entertainment which is what it was made for. A wonderfully entertaining vehicle. So was the Lost Continent. I can turn off my logic and switch on my imagination For an hour or two.
What about a Review over STAR CRASH (Luiggi Cozzi, 1979)
just tell us what type of review it's gonna be in the description instead of telling us to "adjust our expectations" once we're already watching it. of course, that means some people might not click on it, but then you won't have to worry about people's expectations.
I'm inclined to believe that science fiction is fiction about science, and while archeology and paleontology are science, I don't think this film incorporates enought real, contemporary science to qualify as such. Clan of the Cave Bear does, despite the other failings of that film.
Of course history is also science, and nobody would call, say, Barry Lyndon science fiction, so some of these definitions need to be refined.
Your definition excludes most space operas like Flash Gordon, Star Wars, etc., which most people consider sci-fi. But you do you. I try not to get too hung up on the definition, lest I become one of those insufferable pedants who insists on calling it all “speculative fiction” to avoid such conversations.
@@TheUnapologeticGeek I think that's a feature, to tell you the truth.
By calling space opera science fiction, it becomes more difficult to explain why something like 2001 is very different from Star Wars. I agree it's common to call all space films Science Fiction, but the distinction was quite clear when the term was developed.
@@BakedBiehn In my opinion, you are absolutely correct the distinction isn't clear. There are a lot of definitions for Science Fiction, and I agree they are contradictory.
Still, I think "plot impacted by fictional but believable science" is decent, because it highlights the importance of science to genre. I suggest "real or fictional science" might be better.
Also, I personally don't argue that my definition of Science FIction is "right"; but I will argue that such a definition is more useful.
ANd yeah, I'd personally call Apollo 13 a period piece or historical film.
Most people say that "The plot of science fiction must be driven by science". But what they mean to say is that
"The plot of science fiction must be driven by science as yet unavailable at the time the story."
That's what takes stuff like Apollo 13 off the table.
For me, all other tropes are irrelevant. But then I'm a bit of a purist who assumes that words like "science" are there for a reason...
Here's an example:
I contend that the original Blob was not sf, but that the remake actually is.
The original was supposedly alien gloop hitching a ride on a meteor.
While it does involve an unknown alien lifeform, it does not actually involve unknown science to advance the plot.
But the blob in the remake was put into space and altered by us through both known and unknown scientific means.
Isn't that fun?
Sometimes, arguing on labeling can be more entertaining than the work itself.
If you're seriously looking for answers, invest time in reading sf criticism. They love arguing this stuff.
I've always been a bit of a Darko Suvin man myself, but then people tend to prefer artists that paint with their favorite color.
I also agree with TUG about the conflict averse designation of "speculative fiction".
It's meaning has gone well beyond what Heinlein meant when he coined it.
But they'll never take his "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" away from him... :)
@@TheUnapologeticGeek Space operas aren't science fiction.
The Star Wars films are space fantasies, as is blatantly obvious in Episode IV: A New Hope. A quick summary:
- after she sends her companions on a mission to get help, a princess is captured by the black knight of an evil emperor
- her companions find a farm boy
- the farm boy meets a good knight and is given his father's magic sword
- the farm boy & good knight set off to rescue the princess
- note: the knights in this story are also the wizards
Anybody remember a Saturday morning live action show about cave men?
Yes, it was called "Cavegirl".
Ray Harryhausen said he wished he had a dollar for every kid who told him he didn't know nothing
...about pterosaurs, because they didn't get that big. Didn't have bat-wings, and didn't flap.
@@trevormillar1576 no it was like krorg or Groot like a cave family name
Hola.
Película ultra ridícula.
Entre ellas , jamás una mujer supuestamente primitiva va a ser tan educada , atenta y considerada.
Imagínense la mujer de hoy en día , tan " civilizada y con educación " , cuando lo que menos tiene es ser amable y preocupada por un hombre , y menos si es
un desposeido , sin dinero ni posesiones.
Yo soy chileno , y en una inmensa mayoría , la mujer de mi país , por ejemplo ; es ultra superficial , interesada y materialista , y sólo busca el dinero , nada más.
Crap documentary and pretty insulting
Sci-Fi classic? It is a classic movie, it is not science fiction.