| One Million Years B.C. | |
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 UK theatrical release poster (Tom Chantrell) | |
| Directed by | Don Chaffey |
| Screenplay by | Michael Carreras[1] |
| Based on | One Million B.C. 1940 film by Mickell Novack George Baker Joseph Frickert |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
| Edited by | Tom Simpson |
| Music by | Mario Nascimbene |
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| Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £422,816[2] |
| Box office | $8 million (United States)[2] |
One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventure fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey. The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions and Seven Arts, and is a remake of the 1940 American fantasy film One Million B.C.. The film stars Raquel Welch and John Richardson, set in a fictional age of cavemen and dinosaurs coexisting together. Location scenes were filmed on the Canary Islands in the middle of winter, in late 1965. The UK release prints of this film were printed in dye transfer Technicolor. The U.S. version released by 20th Century Fox was cut by nine minutes,[3] printed in DeLuxe Color, and released in 1967.[4]
Like the original film, this remake is largely ahistorical. It portrays dinosaurs and humans living at the same point in time; according to the geological time scale, the last non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago, and modern humans (Homo sapiens) did not exist until about 300,000 years B.C. Ray Harryhausen, who animated all of the dinosaur attacks using stop-motion animation techniques, commented on the U.S. King Kong DVD that he did not make One Million Years B.C. for "professors...who probably don't go to see these kinds of movies anyway."
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: One Million Years B.C. (1966)". 2016. Archived from the original on 16 February 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ a b Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes, The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films, Titan Books, 2007 p 105
- ^ "One Million Years B.C. – Alternate Versions". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ "One Million Years B.C. – Original Print Information". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2016.