Movie: One million B.C (1940)

Movie Reviewed: One million B.C. - An interesting pre-historic movie

This is an adventure filled prehistoric movie where you will also come across many scary creatures and wild fights of cavemen and very little conversation. The story is about two prehistoric people; one, the brutish rock people, and second, the peaceful shell people. This film, produced by Hal Roach has many scientific inaccuracies. One million years ago, there were no humans, in fact humans are around for a little more than 100,000 years and the dinosaurs were extinct 65 million years ago. They couldn't be in a movie that was about one million years ago, and how come that the cavemen have a domesticated dog? Notwithstanding these inaccuracies, it still generated lot of interest in 1940 when this movie was released, partly because it is a fantasy with lot of action. When I saw the fights and brutality with all those monster creatures, it made me remember another horror movie, King Kong (1932). The special effects of King Kong is lot better than this movie. Overall, this movie is OK to watch, and Carol Landis and Lon Chaney Jr. do wonderful jobs in their roles. For a pre-historic movie, Carol Landis is surprisingly fully clothed with almost no nudity in the film.