We Presented the Original b/w Version of This Comic Adaptation of Hammer's One Million Years BC HERE...
...and we recently found that it was reprinted...in glorious color...but with a couple of modifications to avoid licensing restrictions!
To Be Concluded...Wednesday!
Adaptation script by Steve Moore
Art by John Bolton
Color art by Tim Smith
Published in Eclipse's John Bolton's Halls of Horror #2, 1985
While the movie is a remake of the already-classic 1940 film One Million BC (which we have a surprise about coming Friday!), and features kool stop-motion dinosaurs animated by the legendary Ray Harryhausen, the big selling point was Raquel Welch, who also appeared, in slightly more clothes (skintight scuba gear), in another classic sci-fi flick, Fantastic Voyage, that same year.The film's poster and a blowup of the promo photo (left) it was based on became best-selling posters adorning bedrooms, dorm rooms, and dens of genre film buffs and/or fans of beautiful women.
The outdoor scenes were filmed on the Canary Islands in the middle of winter, when the average daily temperature was 60-65 degrees...except this was a cooler-than-normal winter!
Lots of goose bumps!
Roughly nine minutes were cut from the American version, including a provocative dance by co-star (and two-time James Bond girl) Martine Beswicke.
Despite several restorations done for the domestic laser disc and DVD releases, the missing footage is not available on the US DVD (but it was on the laser disc). If you have a multi-region player, you can see it on the British DVD!
Hammer did two other prehistoric epics which featured stock footage from this film: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Creatures the World Forgot.
Though both pix featured scantly-clad cavewomen including a Playboy Playmate, neither was as successful.
