Tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.Tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.Tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 3 nominations total
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe special effects were so good that footage from this film was used in numerous other pictures produced well into the 1960s.
- GoofsThe cave people speak in a made-up language, but Lon Chaney Jr. slips after he throws Victor Mature out of the cave. His wife rushes forward, and Lon clearly says "Get back! Get down! Get back!"
- Quotes
Narrator: These strange figures and forms were carved here many years ago - before any record of our present civilization. They speak the message of an intelligent man.
Mountain Guide: Do you mean there were people of intelligence that long ago?
Narrator: Intelligence, my friend, is inherit. Education and culture are acquired. Civilization, of course, has brought complications. But here are the same thoughts, the same emotions, the same struggles with the problems of life and death we have today experienced.
- Crazy creditsConrad Nagel is in the opening credits as "Narrator," but not in the comprehensive end credits. Because of this, the opening credits are used first in the IMDb listing and the rest of the cast is filled in with the end credits.
- ConnectionsEdited into Two Lost Worlds (1951)
Hal Roach Studios produced this vivid and exciting film which ambitiously takes on nothing less than presenting the Birth of Civilization and the Beginning of Civility. That it does so without seeming pedantic or foolish is due in large measure to fine performances and special effects which still look good many decades later. The viewer knows the exploding volcano is a fraud and the dinosaurs are actually magnified lizards, but somehow it does not matter. The entertainment value is real and the sentiments presented by the actors still ring true.
Victor Mature & Carole Landis do quite well in roles which demanded speaking little more than nonsense words and grunts and using a significant amount of pantomime. They have no difficulty in conveying their thoughts and emotions to the audience. Their characters' efforts just to survive in an exceedingly harsh environment elicit the viewer's interest and respect.
Lon Chaney Jr, in a role his father would have relished, plays the brutal chief of the Rock People. Silent film actor Nigel De Brulier portrays the Shell People's gentle patriarch. Another star from silent days, Conrad Nagel, appears in the movie's opening sequence as the slightly obsessed scientist who interprets the cave paintings which tell the film's tale.
- Ron Oliver
- Oct 13, 2004
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1