Cinema: The Yawn of Mankind

One Million Years B.C. is a gaudier and bawdier copy of a prehistoric (1940) Hollywood epic about life at the yawn of prehistoric mankind. This time it is in color by DeLuxe, but once again, the sound track consists of groan-up dialogue that could have been prerecorded at a pet shop. Just as in the original, the special-effects man creates a table-top monster rally that comes to a clumsy climax in a duel between a triceratops and an allosaurus—the least exciting rematch since the second Clay-Liston fight.

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