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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Outride the Devil: A Morning with Doc Holliday
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Surrender, Hell!
The true-life WWII drama of Lt. Blackburn (Keith Andes) who avoided capture by the Japanese in the Philippines by venturing far into the unforgiving jungle, battling disease, starvation and hostile fire at every turn. He finally amassed a platoon of natives (including headhunters) to his cause, and led successful attacks on the enemy. 1959|85 min*|B&W|1.85:1/widescreen|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer, Bonus Features: John Ford’s This Is Korea! (1951), John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro (1945), The Stilwell Road (1945) narrated by Ronald Reagan
*Plus Special Features
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Jerry Warren Vol. 1 – Man Beast/Wild World of Batwoman/Curse of the Stone Hand
MAN BEAST: The trail to the top of the world leads to terror as Americans on a Himalayan climbing expedition are led into the mountainous lair of the ape-like Yeti by a sinister native guide. Producer-director Jerry Warren specialized in movies made with few dollars and less sense but Man Beast finds the Hollywood underground’s “Abominable Showman” at the top of his low-budget game with a twisty script and excellent snowy locations. 1956|67 min|B&W|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
WILD WORLD OF BATWOMAN: Holy rip-off! At the 1960s height of Batmania, schlock movie master Jerry Warren concocted this way-out tale of Batwoman (Katherine Victor with a bat drawn on her chest with eyeliner), a distaff crimefighter who, with her Bat Girls, is hired to protect the Ayjax Development Company’s newest invention, an atomic hearing aid, from the arch-villain Ratfink. “Wonderfully woeful and thoroughly brain-dead” — The Phantom of the Movies. 1966|70 min.|B&W|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
CURSE OF THE STONE HAND: A twin-pack of south-of-the-border shudders, this anthology horror flick combines a 1946 chiller about a man who joins a gambling club only to find that it’s actually a suicide club, and a 1959 Mexi-movie about a sadistic child who grows up to lead a life of evil. Hollywood-made “framing scenes” star master of menace John Carradine and schlock-film seductress Katherine Victor. 1964|72 min|1.33:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio interview with Kathering “Batwoman” Victor, with Tom Weaver (reenactment); Original Theatrical Trailers; More
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Jerry Warren Vol. 2 – House of the Black Death/Attack of Mayan Mummy/Creature of the Walking Dead
Move over, Ed Wood: In the Fabulous Fifties and beyond, no producer-director-writer worked the bottom of the genre barrel quite like Jerry Warren. Have a multi-megaton blast with this trio of Warren’s battiest Z-movie bombs.
A native of LaLaLand, Jerry Warren (1925-1988) grew up in the shadows of the studios aspiring to work in show biz, and did – first as a movie bit player and then, behind the camera, as a triple-threat (and we DO mean “threat”) sultan of shoestring schlock. From Abominable Snowmen and Teenage Zombies to Batwoman, “Nobody Does It Badder” than Warren, who achieved towering success at living up to his moviemaking motto: “I never, ever tried in any way to make anything worthwhile.”
HOUSE OF THE BLACK DEATH (Blood of the Man Devil): Warlock Belial Desard (Lon Chaney Jr. with forehead horns) and his brother Andre (John Carradine) battle for dominion over the creepy House of Desard, which includes Andre’s son (Tom Drake) who thinks he’s a werewolf. This HOUSE is a result of one group of hack filmmakers making half a movie and a DIFFERENT group of hacks unsuccessfully attempting to finish the job. Complete viewer bewilderment is unconditionally guaranteed! 1965|89 min.|B&W|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
ATTACK OF THE MAYAN MUMMY: A doctor tells a newspaper editor (via flashbacks) about a research center’s experiments in hypnotic regression, conducted on a young woman who describes (now in flashbacks WITHIN flashbacks) a previous incarnation among the ancient Mayans in Yucatan. Meanwhile, and somehow related, a long-haired mummy prowls 20th-century streets! “Momia Azteca” Mexi-madness collides with Jerry Warren framing scenes in this jumbled jamboree of science and the supernatural! 1964|87 min|b&w|1.85:1 (widescreen)|NR
CREATURE OF THE WALKING DEAD: A scientist steals his grandfather’s body from a mausoleum and, in a secret lab, uses the blood of a kidnapped girl to resurrect him; Gruesome Grandpappy takes it from here. This Mexi-melodrama was later “Hollywood-enhanced” by the addition of new Jerry Warren-directed footage in which junk-film favorites Katherine Victor and Bruno VeSota pretend to be part of the other proceedings! Many grisly touches and a great, bombastic score highlight the original Mexi-movie. 1964|74 min|B&W|1.85:1|NR
SPECIAL FEATURE: Audio interview with Geraldine Brianne Murphy, the former Mrs. Jerry Warren, and noted cinematographer (reenactment)
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