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Whistle Stopper - One Million Years B.C.
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List Price: $9.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick
Directed By: Don Chaffey
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543113119
Format: Anamorphic
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-03-09
Running Time: 91
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1967-02-21
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Summary: If you like older movies?
Comment: This movie wasn't too bad. It's about a caveman getting cast out of a male dominated, barbaric, black haired clan. Then stumbling onto another gentle (but able to protect themselves), more advanced, blond clan where he finds a woman (Welch) and they fall in love. He evenually gets cast out of that clan he, then, takes Welch and goes back to his own. He finds his brother had tried to kill the leader (their father), made him blind and lame, and has now taken over the clan. Welch goes back to her clan and gets help as there is about to be a battle. When the final battle starts, an earthquake rips up the land killing many from both sides. After all is over, the blond and black haired people join to form one clan. Of course, the love birds get to stay together.
This movie is a classic 60's portrail of how women were in movies. But in this one the women fought back so there wasn't too many damsal in distress scenes. Everyone is cavemen but they also have trimed beards and styled hair, if kind of frizzy. The monsters are lizards made to look gigantic. There is even a huge sea turtle that is supposed to be scary, but... well, falls short of the mark.
I'm the kind of person that can look past the bad effects and take it for the story. I think the story wasn't too bad so I couldn't bring myself to give it a 2 star.
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Summary: ok
Comment: this movie was not too bad for an old b rated caveman movie if you liked caveman or quest for fire you may like this movie
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Summary: Turn your brain off and have fun.
Comment: I'm going to be the first ever reviewer not to mention the spectacular sight of Raquel Welch in her primitive bikini. Oops. Actually that seems to be obligatory. Now that we have that out of the way . . .
It's also almost obligatory to comment on what every third-grader knows, that humans and dinosaurs never co-existed, and that recognizable modern humans were not around in 1,000,000 B.C. No need to belabor the point, but you have to wonder if the moviemakers themselves were really this ignorant, if they were just showing their contempt for the public, or if they trusted moviegoers to have this kind of basic information, and were doing an intentional spoof.
The film is still a lot of fun. Just think of it as a fantasy, taking place in a world that never was, and enjoy the adventure. It's an exciting story, and you start to sympathize with some initially unsympathetic characters. I am a little baffled by the praise for the special effects, which look kind of cheesy to me, but maybe I need to watch it on a larger screen.
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Summary: the mother of all crude caveman/monster flicks, but that is some babe
Comment: I saw this when it came out, and I must say, it didn't age particularly well. Not only is it ludicrous in terms of anachronisms - dinosaurs and men co-exist - but the story is weirdly obtuse: a savage tribe ejects a member, and he finds a beauty from a more civilized tribe, who falls for him. In between, they can't even have fun without a pteradactyl carrying off Raquel. Then there is a huge volcanic eruption and some survive, walking into the mist.
But heck, this is vintage camp, and the introduction of Raquel, who never did much thereafter except be famous. I enjoyed seeing it again, for nostalgia's sake, but see no reason whatsoever to watch it yet again, except perhaps with my son.
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Summary: Five stars for the movie, not for the DVD
Comment: Raquel Welch looks great. Basically, the tribe of the beer gut from Oregon goes to war with the tribe of b.o. from Washington, fighting over poor Raquel Welch who settles for some guy in California. Raquel is stunning. And she still looks great. The movie is very accurate since it shows dinosaurs and humans coexisting. However, I'm sure that people didn't live in caves. Apparently the directors must have modeled the primative culture on the Northwest. Furthermore, dinosaurs did not die out millions of years ago. They were with us very recently and may still be with us today. Cambodian temples, Babylonian temples, Roman mosaics, Nasca Indian art, art in Mexico, testimony by Celtic literature, all demonstrates dinosaurs were contemporaries with humans. Great movie, poor DVD since it was edited.
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Editorial Reviews:
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In this vivid view of prehistoric life, a man from the mean-spirited Rock People (John Richardson) is banished from his home. He soon finds himself among the kind, gentle Shell People and falls in love with one of their loving tribeswomen (Raquel Welch). The twosome decide to face the world together, cut off from all tribal support, alone in a deadly world of hideous beast and earthshattering volcanic eruptions. The film's pioneering special effects have made it a true science-fiction classic.
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