One Million B.C. (1940)
Directed by Hal Roach
One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.
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What critics compared One Million B.C. to
A remake of Hal Roach's b&w One Million B.C. and the clearer precursor of the two to Jean-Jacques Annaud's fabulous Quest for Fire, what with its characterization of nascent classism now colour-coded, the Hammer production also takes a page from Bert I. Gordon in unleashing prehistoric monsters on civilization and yet manages even less credibility than your average Gordon concoction by turning his freak-of-nature beasties into a mere anachronism: "The Flintstones" be damned, cavemen and dinosaurs never got the chance to interact.