Movie · 1940
One Million B.C.
“So amazing you won't believe your eyes!”
Released 5 April 1940 80 min Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction More from 1940 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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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How old were they?
Nigel De Brulier
as Peytow
Creighton Hale
as Shell Person
Inez Palange
as Tohana
John Northpole
as Rock Person
Conrad Nagel
as Narrator
Harry Wilson
as Rock Person
Lon Chaney Jr.
as Akhoba
Robert Kent
as Mountain Guide
Edgar Edwards
as Skakana
Victor Mature
as Tumak
Norman Budd
as Rock Person
Dick Simmons
as Shell Person
John Hubbard
as Ohtao
Mamo Clark
as Nupondi
Carole Landis
as Loana
Jacqueline Dalya
as Ataf
Mary Gale Fisher
as Wandi
Lorraine Rivero
as Rock Person
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The numbers
41years between the oldest and youngest billed
62Nigel De Brulier — oldest on the call sheet
21Jacqueline Dalya — youngest billed
35average age of the credited cast