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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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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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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Sabu Double Feature
JUNGLE HELL: Still playing a “Jungle Boy” in his 30s, the inimitable Sabu of Thief of Bagdad fame made an unsuccessful 1950s stab at TV stardom, with the unsold episodes morphing into this feature-length film instead. As usual he’s up to his diaper-loincloth in trouble as the jungles of India bristle with danger, from a wicked witch doctor to rogue elephants. David Bruce (The Mad Ghoul) and K.T. Stevens (Missile to the Moon) co-star. 1964|78 min|1.33:1|NR
SAVAGE DRUMS: Startling thrills and primitive passions as Sabu, a boxer training for a light heavyweight championship fight in Los Angeles, is implored to return to his Indo-Chinese island home and help rid the area of Communist sympathizers. As Red Chinese troops prepare to invade the island, Sabu and his fight manager Sid Melton stand up for democracy! 1951|72 min|B&W|NR
SPECIAL FEATURES: Interview with Margia Dean (Savage Drums); Trailers
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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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