Episode 92: One Million B.C. (1940)
Today we’re reviewing One Million B.C. (1940), a film from Hollywood’s Golden Era which is probably the common ancestor of all caveman movies. The 1966 remake with Raquel Welch is much more famous, but as it turns out it’s pretty faithful to the original
Screens of the Stone Age · Josh Lindal, Dr. Kimberly Plomp, and Dr. Ross Barnett
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Show Notes
Today we’re reviewing One Million B.C. (1940), a film from Hollywood’s Golden Era which is probably the common ancestor of all caveman movies. The 1966 remake with Raquel Welch is much more famous, but as it turns out it’s pretty faithful to the original, the main difference apparently being the blatant on-screen animal cruelty (consider this your content warning).
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Watch One Million B.C. (1940) on YouTube in glorious AI colour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgJBtn417Qo
Listen to our review of One Million Years B.C. (1966): https://youtu.be/gcTrCwrR0tk?feature=shared
Victor Mature: “I’m not an actor – and I’ve got 64 films to prove it!”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Mature#:~:text=Mature%20was%20famously%20self%2Ddeprecatory,That%20is%20my%20real%20occupation.
Snow White singing with the animals in the forest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khmrr7-W6BA
The TVTropes entry for “Slurpasuar” has a screenshot from this movie: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Slurpasaur
Animal cruelty in One Million B.C.: https://www.californiaherps.com/films/lizardfilms/OneMillionBC1940.html
The modern bikini was born in 1946: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/05/culture-re-view-a-short-history-on-the-invention-of-the-bikini
Seventeen thousand-year-old conch shell horn: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966322717/why-a-musician-breathed-new-life-into-a-17-000-year-old-conch-shell-horn
Palaeolithic flutes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_flute