What a waste of my time!!!

hyped garbage

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is by far Ray Harryhausen's worst work, a disappointment on every level. Although there is some good stop motion dinosaur action,there is also plenty of disappointing lizards on green screen action. It has a slow moving story and absolutely NO dialogue. They should have gone with less grunting and more action.The cave people seem to know everything except how to communicate with each other and that's lame.And why do they all live in one cave?Being able to watch a young Raquel Welch makes it bearable. I'd recommend this to fans of Welch and Harryhausen but all of them have probably seen it already.Otherwise,only watch this if you like to be very bored.

Like many people, I really only knew about this film because of the leading actress and her iconic look, but I was also up for seeing humans and dinosaurs living together, from Hammer Studios, directed by Don Chaffrey (Jason and the Argonauts, Pete's Dragon). Basically caveman Tumak (John Richardson) has been expelled from the Rock Tribe, after fighting with their leader Akhoba (James Bond's Robert Brown), also his father. After days of wandering the wilderness, Tumak stumbles upon the Shell Tribe, specifically the several female members, living on the coast, he is in a bad condition from his ordeal, he is nursed back to health by the chief's daughter Loana (Raquel Welch). Loana's betrothed Payto (William Lyon Brown) becomes increasingly jealous of this, and eventually the two men get into a major fight, Tumak is expelled following it, however Loana decides to join him as he travels back to his people. Loana teaches the Rock Tribe how to be civil, while Tumak was away Akhoba was severely injured, so he becomes the new leader, this does not sit well with his brother Sakana (Percy Herbert), who plans to overthrow him. While this storyline is going on, the Homo sapiens are surrounded by many dinosaurs and other large prehistoric creatures, some of which they encounter and battle with, including Brontosaur (herbivore), Archelon (a giant prehistoric turtle), Allosaur (carnivore), Triceratops, Ceratosaur (carnivore), Pterodactyl and its hatchlings and Rhamphorhynchus (carnivore). Also starring Thunderball's Martine Beswick as Nupondi, Jean Wladon as Ahot, Lisa Thomas as Sura, Malya Nappi as Tohana and Richard James as Young Rock Man. Welch is the big draw of this film, she is a beautiful woman with a stunning physique, sporting a furry bikini, she has no dialogue, only a number of grunts, no wonder she became a poster pinup with her iconic image (the poster famously appears in The Shawshank Redemption). The film has only a little bit of a storyline going on, you sort of ignore and concentrate more on Welch, but there are some good sequences of the cavemen fighting against dinosaurs, brought to life by the stop- motion animation of the brilliant Ray Harryhausen, as an overall film it's a reasonable prehistoric adventure. Raquel Welch was number 40 on The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols, and the film was number 86 on The 100 Greatest Sexy Moments. Worth watching!

This movie essentially begins during the dawn of mankind with the leader of the Rock tribe, "Akhoba" (Robert Brown) slyly trapping a warthog and allowing his son "Tumac" (John Anderson) the honor of leaping into the pit to slay it. This decision angers Akhoba's other son "Sakana" (Percy Hebert) who is quite jealous of Tumac and sees him as a threat to his ambition of one day ruling the Rock tribe as the successor to his father. Additionally, the fact that the beautiful "Nupondi" (Martine Beswick) prefers Tumac over him also infuriates Sakana to no end. But things change quite suddenly when Akhoba and Tumac engage in mortal combat over a piece of meat which leaves Tumac forcibly evicted from the tribe and left for dead. Fortunately, Tumac manages to survive and upon wandering a great distance through the desert collapses near the vicinity where some young women from the Shell tribe happen to be fishing. Having never seen a male outside of her tribe "Loana" (Raquel Welch) takes it upon herself to nurse Tumac back to health. This sudden interest for this stranger by Loana causes some concern by one of the males named "Ahot" (Jean Wladon) who rather fancied having Loana for himself. Anyway, one thing leads to another and eventually Tumac and Ahot engage in a violent struggle which results in Tumac once again being evicted. But this time he has a companion in Loana who forsakes her tribe to be with him. Now rather than reveal any more of this movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this particular picture is a British remake of an earlier Hollywood film by the name of "One Million B.C." which was produced in 1940. Personally, I prefer the remake to the original due to two specific reasons. First of all, unlike its predecessor, the 1966 version is filmed in color which enhances some of the special effects. But the main reason this movie is better is the presence of Raquel Welch who created quite a sensation in her fur bikini during this time. No doubt some who remember watching this movie at the local theater or drive-in will know what I'm talking about. In any case, while this movie is clearly not meant to be historical in nature and doesn't have anything resembling a coherent script, it is still a fond memory for me and I rate it as slightly above average.

OK, I know that I open the hell's gates by saying that; but Raquel Welch doesn't look any sexy in this movie, in fact, my fat uncle is more sexy compared to her! Raquel is undoubtedly beautiful, many movies can witness that she's one of the oomph queens of cinema. The thing is in this movie something was wrong; the outfit?, her body?, the movie itself?, all of the above? I go with all of the above! In this, Raquel looks like a brunette copy of Pamela Anderson at her worst shapes in Baywatch's episodes (and I hate Pamela Anderson even in her best shapes !). So how come that Raquel turned into a sex goddess after this, having her looks, with that stone age bikini, to be in every list made to date about the sexiest moments ever been on the silver screen ??! It's not historical, it's more like historical enigma to me !Maybe it's something related to the Americans back then. They got board with the voluptuous blondes and looked for something different, something leaner and darker. However, in a bathing suit competition, done exclusively for the brunettes of the late 1960s, I believe that Sophia Loren could have kicked some Raquel's butt, and won by a landslide ! Maybe it was the idea itself. The cheekiness and the loveliness of it. It wasn't fit or familiar at the moment for the movie's heroine to wear a bikini FOR ALL THE MOVIE'S TIME! I recall Marilyn Monroe's movies, Beigitte Bardot's movies, Elvis movies, Bond's movies, Matt Helm's spoofs along with the era's beach musicals; none of them had that offer. So, sure it presented some outrageous sexuality that was too rare to find.Let alone how that wild fantasy was shown as a barbarian girl; namely someone spends a little of her time speaks gibberish, and most of her time acts violently. Wow, that should have been an event. Most of the movie's dolls / heroines up to that moment used to be infantile, rational, or a little bit of both (Doris Day-type), but no wrestler. I began to understand the formula that dazzled the 1966's *male* viewer : different beauty, nearly naked, no talks, loving, with on demand fangs. Well, this had to be enchanted as well as groundbreaking mix ! Now to the movie. Pardon me.. What movie? Was there a movie around? I didn't meet any! There were some ugly people in fur, beating up each other, cat fights, dinosaurs, volcano for the end, and everybody saying in every event nothing but : AKITA TUMAK, AKITA TUMAK !!!As an action, cleaning my room has more steam. As a fantasy, Ray Harryhausen made better, more memorable, stuff. As a sexy movie; just UGH! For my taste; the word hot doesn't apply to anybody here, including one of my early obsessions : Martine Beswick; that girl had a real, original and ultra raunchy cat fight 3 years earlier in From Russia With Love, this time it's the poor, dirty and untalented copy of it !On the other hand, as a movie with acting it's outright hilarious. For small instance look to Percy Herbert; he deals with all the situations, all the feelings, by one unchangeable reaction: gazing in anger while constricting one of his eyes; This is unforgettable ! As a sci-fi it's more than inspiring; it propounds such a brilliant idea; what if all the language became one word? Ahh, it would have been a blast. I think our life could have been finally about deeds not talk. Imagine how spouses' arguments, political speeches, schools' curriculums could be all summarized by just one AKITA TUMAK. Sheer magic !Watch this movie to believe that it was made one day. Exploitation wasn't deprived of anything interesting like this before. It served only Raquel Welch, and serves only her die-hard lovers. For me; when I firstly watched it, back in the late 1990s while being in my early twenties, I put it in the top 10 list of the worst movies I have ever seen. Now, I got matured, putting it in the top 10 list of the best unintentional comedies ever made, where it's in the list's end by the way due to its status among its peers as the most boring ! I wonder, if the cavemen did a movie about their life, wouldn't it be more sexy and dramatic ?!