Episode 92: One Million B.C. (1940)

Today we’re reviewing One Million B.C. (1940), a film from Hollywood’s Golden Era which is probably the common ancestor of all caveman movies. The 1966 remake with Raquel Welch is much more famous, but as it turns out it’s pretty faithful to the original, the main difference apparently being the blatant on-screen animal cruelty (consider this your content warning).

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In this episode:

• Watch One Million B.C. (1940) on YouTube in glorious AI colour

• Listen to our review of One Million Years B.C. (1966)

• Victor Mature: “I’m not an actor – and I’ve got 64 films to prove it!”

• Snow White singing with the animals in the forest

• The TVTropes entry for “Slurpasuar” has a screenshot from this movie

• Animal cruelty in One Million B.C.

• The modern bikini was born in 1946

• Seventeen thousand-year-old conch shell horn

• Palaeolithic flutes