When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Victoria Vetri, Patrick Allen, Robin Hawdon
Synopsis:
An intended sacrifice for sea lizards escapes thanks to a storm, but must flee her people and brave hostile tribes and other monsters before finding sanctuary.
Review:
The anachronistic mix of grunting cavemen and blown-up or stop-framed dinosaurs from the very successful One Million Years BC, only not as expensively produced. As if to compensate for that, and the absence of Miss Welch, Hammer throws in some sex, which unknown actors and a few years' advance in permissiveness make possible. Neither the actors nor the sex are any more convincing than the monsters, and a suspense finale involving a tsunami is a non-starter, since diegetic footage and found footage are never integrated.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Victoria Vetri, Patrick Allen, Robin Hawdon
Synopsis:
An intended sacrifice for sea lizards escapes thanks to a storm, but must flee her people and brave hostile tribes and other monsters before finding sanctuary.
Review:
The anachronistic mix of grunting cavemen and blown-up or stop-framed dinosaurs from the very successful One Million Years BC, only not as expensively produced. As if to compensate for that, and the absence of Miss Welch, Hammer throws in some sex, which unknown actors and a few years' advance in permissiveness make possible. Neither the actors nor the sex are any more convincing than the monsters, and a suspense finale involving a tsunami is a non-starter, since diegetic footage and found footage are never integrated.
Country: GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Victoria Vetri, Patrick Allen, Robin Hawdon
Synopsis:
An intended sacrifice for sea lizards escapes thanks to a storm, but must flee her people and brave hostile tribes and other monsters before finding sanctuary.
Review:
The anachronistic mix of grunting cavemen and blown-up or stop-framed dinosaurs from the very successful One Million Years BC, only not as expensively produced. As if to compensate for that, and the absence of Miss Welch, Hammer throws in some sex, which unknown actors and a few years' advance in permissiveness make possible. Neither the actors nor the sex are any more convincing than the monsters, and a suspense finale involving a tsunami is a non-starter, since diegetic footage and found footage are never integrated.