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Released
1940 · FILM

One Million B.C.

So amazing you won't believe your eyes!

Runtime
80 min
AdventureFantasyRomance
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Synopsis

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists. It is also known by the titles Cave Man, Man and His Mate, and Tumak. The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man 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.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ray SnyderShot by Norbert BrodineScored by Werner R Heymann

Also known as

  • Millionen Jahre zurückde
  • Tumak, der Herr des Urwaldsde
  • One Million B. C.en
  • Hace un millón de añoses
  • Tumak, fils de la junglefr
  • Sul sentiero dei mostriit

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