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I was a 10 year old when I first watched this, I marvelled at the realistic dinosaurs and the glamor of Raquel Welch, it was pure magic to a kid who loved dinosaurs and I'm still a kid at heart now and still love the rather outdated special effects but I'd prefer them any day to the over used CGI you now get in almost any sci-fi/horror movie. The story is literally non existent and basically a love story between our cave girl warrior Raquel and John Richardsons cave man mixed with fighting off maruading dinosaurs. Of course not scientifically correct regarding man coexisting with his scaly neighbours but its an out an out fantasy movie and I still love it, it has a charm about it that you don't get with today's modern movies.

ONE MILLION YEARS BC is definitely not historically accurate but is brilliant and awful at the same time. Obviously most of the brilliance comes from Harryhausen's stellar work; the young allosaurus attacking the shell people's camp is an obvious highlight as is Martine Beswick's bonkers dance routine. But if there are lessons to be learned from this dialogue free piece of sixties hokum it's that more films should show not tell and that more films should have Raquel Welch.

I watched this film with genuine pleasure and I am glad that I finally discovered this great classic - even if objectively speaking this is a very silly movie. Below, more of my impressions with some very limited SPOILERS.This adventure film about prehistoric people doesn't even try to stick to any kind of realism - in the year 1 000 000 BC modern humans didn't exist yet and as for the sex appeal of proto-human "Homo erectus" chicks, well, I definitely don't even want to go there... Dinosaurs of course were also extinct in those times, already since 64 million years - and the bikini worn by Ms Welch (even if it is supposedly made in deer-skin) wouldn't appear before XXth century... But all of this has of course no importance - this is just an adventure film, having absolutely no other pretensions that to entertain.The story is basically about an exile from one tribe of prehistoric people who finds refuge with another, more advanced tribe and obtains there a bride - actually, now that I think of it, it becomes clear that Jean-Jacques Annaud copied this general story line into his own (much better) "Quest of fire" film. Of course there will be some further complications, but really, the story doesn't really matter. The two things that make all the interest of this film are the chicks and the dinos.Being a terminal screen junkie and having watched uncounted thousands of films in my life, I already saw a great lot of beautiful actresses - but few films can equal this one in which we can admire not one but TWO incredibly hot and sexy beauties: Raquel Welch as gentle Loana and Martine Beswick as bitchy hellcat Nupondi, both of them wearing little clothes. Even better, at one moment they get into a nasty catfight... Every scene in which even one of them appears is a splendor - and if you think that Raquel Welch is THE star in this film, well, wait until you see Nupondi dancing!The dinosaurs in this film are amongst the best creations of the great Ray Harryhausen and anybody who liked his creatures in Sinbad films will be delighted to discover here the same kind of stop-motion magic.Chicks in bikinis vs. dinos in stop motion film - can it get any better? A film without any pretension other than to give good time to its public, more suitable for watching amongst guys, with a mandatory consumption of beer a condition to appreciate it more. Enjoy!

I look upon this film like this : England won the World Cup in the same year and as far as I know much of the video footage available of the final (complete match) is in monochrome, with odd moments around the match filmed in colour i.e. the celebrations, the presentation of the cup etc. Video tape in colour was too expensive at the time for the BBC and most great sporting events were video taped in black and white.The great merit of England's performance has never been devalued because it was filmed using poor black and white film.Might I say that this film was state of the art at the time, in colour, with solid British actors as support for the most shapely of female forms in Raquel Welch. Minimum of dialogue--- I cant complain at the lack of subtitles--- excellent sets whether in the desert or coastline and special effects by the great Ray Harryhausen.Yes the creature features are rather lame when viewed against today's cgi's but in context they don't look out of place in the film and the story line just rolled along nicely given what it is.So avoid this if you want special effects in the league of '2012', 'The Day After Tomorrow' or any Arnie film for example. This is just a nice little example of 60's memorabilia which spawned countless imitations featuring scantily clad aspiring actors but there was only one Raquel Welch..... well there is also only one Salma Hayek...... Marilyn Monroe..... Claudia Cardinale.....