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One Million Years BC [1966]

Raquel Welch DVDs

Peace & Freedom Press Comments on One Million Years BC
Raquel Welch famously struts her stuff in a dubious bikini, and seemingly everyone else speaks one word: "Akita", which seemed to surface in one or two other similar pics. 'One Million Years BC' seems to have grown in status, and should, in terms of accuracy, be taken with a pinch, nay, a cellar, of salt. If you do that, it can be seen as the fairly entertaining and curious movie it is. - Paul Rance.

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Raquel Welch in the pose from 'One Million Years BC', which made her a '60s icon

Amazon.co.uk One Million Years BC Review
One Million Years B.C. might be about as palaeontologically accurate as The Flintstones, but it's still a lasting kitsch masterpiece, as much for Raquel Welch’s Amazonian presence in an abbreviated fur bikini as for Ray Harryhausen’s wonderful stop-motion dinosaurs. A rare big-budget venture from Hammer Films, this 1966 version of the 1940 Victor Mature classic One Million B.C. is set in a fantasised prehistory where Caucasian cavemen coexist with dinosaurs. Loana (Welch) of the Shell People teaches Tumak (John Richardson) of the Rock Tribe that harmonious cooperation on the beach is a better way of life than rule-of-the-mightiest savagery in caves.

Every quarter of an hour, the gibberish-spouting ("Akita akita"), skin-wearing, remarkably clean cave folk are inconvenienced by special effects: a giant sea turtle, a hungry Allosaur, a Triceratops/Iguanodon battle, a Pterodactyl that wants to feed Raquel to its chicks, a major volcanic upheaval. Poster icon Welch gets stiff competition from a lithe Martine Beswick in a cat fight, and the camp goings-on are given real screen presence by gorgeous, primitive Canary Isles locations and an epic score from Mario Nascimbene.

On the DVD: One Million Years B.C. arrives on DVD with minimal extras: a wonderfully ballyhoo-intensive trailer, plus nice little retrospective chats with Welch and Harryhausen. The picture is an anamorphic print of the original 1.85:1 ratio, and sound is Dolby mono.--Kim Newman

One Million Years BC Synopsis
Fantasy tale of two people from opposing tribes who must survive the onslaught of giant reptiles before their love can be fulfilled.

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