One Million B.C.
Boy meets girl – prehistoric style, in this classic of man’s battle to survive against the terrors of the prehistoric world.
One Million B.C. is an American historical epic fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. Boy meets girl – prehistoric style, in this classic of man’s battle to survive against the terrors of the prehistoric world. Big-chested Victor Mature stars as protagonist Tumak, a young caveman 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. Dinosaurs, savage nature, and a gigantic erupting volcano are part of the camp adventure classic.
1940 | 80 min | B&W | Optional English Subtitles: SDH | 1.37:1 | Mono PCM | All Region | NR
Special Features:
• Commentary track by Film Expert, Toby Roan
• Photo Gallery
Review:
“…a masterpiece of imaginative fiction… You are almost certain to like something about ‘One Million B.C.’ ” – B.R. Crisler, The New York Times
Nominated for 2 Oscars! Best Special Effects – Roy Seawright (photographic) & Elmer Raguse (sound)
and Original Music Score – Werner R. Heymann
Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr., Conrad Nagel, John Hubbard, Nigel De Brulier, Mamo Clark, Inez Palange, Jacqueline Dalya, Mary Gale Fisher, Norman Budd, Harry Wilson
Directed byHal Roach and Hal Roach Jr.
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Sea Devils
When a smuggler (Rock Hudson) takes to the high seas in the historical era of Napoleon’s threatened invasion of England, he meets a beautiful mystery woman (Yvonne De Carlo) and is induced to sail her to the French coast, unaware that she is actually a spy…but for which side? “Good color photography enhances the striking sea scenes and lavish interior settings” (Harrison’s Reports) in this suspenseful costume adventure from action directing great Raoul Walsh. 1952|91 min|Color|1.33:1|NR
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Jerry Warren Vol. 3 – Violent and the Damned/No Time to Kill
Jerry Warren not only produced bad movies, he bought them from others. Here are two prime examples, and don’t say we didn’t warn you.
THE VIOLENT AND THE DAMNED (Mãos Sangrentas): When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil’s infamous Anchieta prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives, who have fled by foot and boat and now have begun to turn on each other. It’s dog-eat-dog in an equatorial jungle hell filmed in panama. 1954|58 min|B&W|1.33:1|NR
NO TIME TO KILL (Med Mord I Bagaget): After eight years in prison on a trumped up charge a man plans to kill the elusive man who framed him. He knew but one desperate code – vengeance and reprisal…with a fever of hatred uncontrolled after spending eight years in prison on a trumped up charge. 1959|60 min|B&W|1.33:1|NR
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Euro-Trash Double Feature
THE NYLON NOOSE (Die Nylonschlinge) – Stockbrokers get necks broken in an Edgar Wallace Krimi-style crime thriller complete with old-dark-house setting, fiendish serial killer and intrepid Scotland Yard sleuth. A shadow-strewn mansion is the backdrop for macabre melodrama with blackmail leading to murder, plus a hulking man-monster (Ady Berber of Dark Eyes of London infamy) haunts the dank caves below the house! 1963|71 min.|B&W|1.37:1|NR
ESCAPE FROM SAHARA (Madeleine und der Legionär) – It’s a nightmare at 20,000 feet when three French Foreign Legion paratroopers decide to desert, and force their plane’s pilot to take them to Spain. Following a fight and a desert crash-landing, they meet a nurse (Hildegard Neff) who offers help. There are run-ins with military patrols, a trip on a merchant ship–and romance–until the deserters find themselves in the country they fear more than any other–France! 1958|B&W|1.37:1|NR
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World War II Double Feature
JUNGLE PATROL: Machine-gun action and suspense are the backdrop of a love story in this tense tale of eight young USAF flyers stationed in World War II New Guinea. Their orders: to intercept Japanese bombers headed for Australian objectives. Their record: An amazing 100 percent. But with a heavy formation of Jap bombers now en route and our boys hopelessly outnumbered, it looks as though their unnatural luck is about to run out. 1948 | 71 min | B&W | 1.33:1 | NR
THE SILENT RAIDERS: Their assignment amounted to “kill or be killed”: During World War II, just prior to D-Day, a seven-man unit arrives on the French coast with orders to help wipe out a German communications center three miles inland. There’s suspense in the Steel Helmet tradition as the men attempt to hold the captured building against the enemy and their snipers. Produced for only $27,000. Music by Elmer Bernstein. 1954 |65 min | B&W | 1.33:1 | NR
Plus Feature Length Combat Film Compilation:
COMBAT BULLETIN: Combat Bulletin is a newsreel series produced by the Army Pictorial Service during WWII. The public wasn’t allowed to view these combat films covering all fronts of the war. This compilation is the result of culling through many hours of film in order to select the very best footage from the original series. 89min | B&W | 1.33:1 | NR
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