After watching Prehistoric Women I could not figure out why of all the film companies out there, Eagle-Lion Studios was the one that released it. Or a better word would be inflicted it on the movie-going public on both sides of the pond. Eagle-Lion was the creation of Great Britain's J. Arthur Rank to get a foothold in the American market and Lord Rank a notoriously prudish gentleman. Did he see he was producing something of a skin flick?
My guess is that someone got the bright idea to try and make a version of One Million B.C. in a color process called Cine-color. The version I saw on TV was quite washed out and something tells me Prehistoric Women will not be a candidate for restoration.
No dialog among the characters who are played by no name actors. It's all done with a narrator who probably is used to educational films, his voice has got that kind of monotone. Not even an entertaining one like Ben Stein's.
The plot such as it is involves the woman of the tribe rejecting the male chauvinism of the men strike out on their own with some of the younger females. But as time goes by everyone concerned develops itches that need scratching.
Curiously enough unlike the prehistorically inaccurate One Million B.C. only mammals are shown, the age of the reptilian dinosaur having long passed before homo sapiens arrived on the scene. One flying pterodactyl like creature does threaten the tribe, but he looks more like a dehydrated Big Bird and the newly invented fire deals with him.
Did J. Arthur Rank ever see this thing he unleashed?
My guess is that someone got the bright idea to try and make a version of One Million B.C. in a color process called Cine-color. The version I saw on TV was quite washed out and something tells me Prehistoric Women will not be a candidate for restoration.
No dialog among the characters who are played by no name actors. It's all done with a narrator who probably is used to educational films, his voice has got that kind of monotone. Not even an entertaining one like Ben Stein's.
The plot such as it is involves the woman of the tribe rejecting the male chauvinism of the men strike out on their own with some of the younger females. But as time goes by everyone concerned develops itches that need scratching.
Curiously enough unlike the prehistorically inaccurate One Million B.C. only mammals are shown, the age of the reptilian dinosaur having long passed before homo sapiens arrived on the scene. One flying pterodactyl like creature does threaten the tribe, but he looks more like a dehydrated Big Bird and the newly invented fire deals with him.
Did J. Arthur Rank ever see this thing he unleashed?