The story revolves around two warring brothers who want the same woman as his companion. There is no dialogue throughout. We hear mostly grunts and shouts and screams but this seems entirely believable since we're supposed to be watching prehistoric creatures who exist at the beginning of Earth.

If you've seen even a few CFF films from this era then you should be able to write much of the rest yourself, and even if you haven't then I'd still wager you could make a fairly accurate guess at how things subsequently unfold. But this matters little given a young target audience that would have lapped this up, and coming to the film with a decades of adulthood under my belt, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Yes, there's a degree of nostalgia at play here, as much for these films as my own childhood years of improvised outdoor amusement, but Skid Kids is very smartly directed by Chaffey and handsomely photographed in crisp monochrome by wonderfully named cinematographer, S.D. Onions. A couple of brief studio scenes aside, the film was shot on actual southeast London locations with what looks like half the population of the area recruited as extras. Of the professional actors, my favourite has to be Vi Kaley, who plays an elderly women who pushes her way to the font of a gathered crowd when Spike and Sam stop to sell their stolen goods, then stares at them with a google-eyed expression that suggests she thinks they've both lost their minds. British movie stalwart A.E. Matthews even makes a guest appearance as a taxi passenger who loses his hat. The title, "Creatures the World Forgot", is a very poor one, as it hints at something that the movie doesn't contain or delivers. I had initially thought that there were creatures in the movie, so imagine my surprise when there was none of such. So the movie's title is very poorly selected.With nothing you could classify as dialogue in the film, none of the characters are identified by name, and are all identified by their roles or their visual characteristics in the closing credit roll – The Father, The Dumb Girl, The "Fair" Boy, The "Dark" Boy, and so on. The names cited in the review are the ones given to these characters in the official synopsis, and have been used here to avoid literary clutter. This film might not be for the squeamish. It is a view of the ancient world after the dinosaurs and before civilizations began, so you get to see the triumphs and tragedies and the survival of the fittest of prehistoric peoples. It is graphic and intense, showing how these people manage to survive against the odds whether dealing with enemies or natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions. The attempts to find food leaves nothing to the imagination as antelope become fair game for undeveloped humans who simply reach into their hives to pull out meat and the nutrients that somehow they can get from the blood. There's even a little bit of cannibalism as evidenced by a man wanting control and taking a huge bite out of his rival. Cast: Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O’ Shaughnessey, Robert John, Rosalie Crutchley, Marcia Fox, Doon Baido A cut-down version of the above, but one that really pushes the search for a new female star and the selection of Julie Ege, skipping through her press and portfolio pictures before turning its attention to the film in which she appears. I would guess it's more that none of the previous boxes have been rated higher than 15, and they don't want to limit future sales of a box by having a single 18-rated title in it.

Creatures the World Forgot is not related to two later, similarly titled films, The Land That Time Forgot (1975), and The People That Time Forgot (1977). These were made by Amicus Productions and both starred Doug McClure. TV Spot - presented here is a VHS TV spot for Creatures the World Forgot. In English, not subtitled. (1 min). A volcano erupts and an earthquake opens up a crevasse, swallowing up many members of the 'Dark Tribe'. The tribal leader is killed and a fight for leadership between two survivors, Mak ( Brian O'Shaughnessy) and Zen, soon breaks out. Mak is victorious and leads the surviving tribe members across a desert in search of a new home. They meet and befriend a tribe of fair-haired people. The leader of the fair-haired people presents Mak with a girl, Noo, as a wife. Mak offers a girl in exchange, but she already has a mate. She tries to escape with her mate, but they are caught and killed. The Dark tribe move on and eventually settle in a fertile valley where they flourish. Noo gives birth to twin boys on the same day another woman gives birth to a mute girl. The tribe demand that the girl be sacrificed, but a lightning strike convinces the tribes' old witch to adopt her as her apprentice. A plain-wrap Blu-ray of Creatures was one of twenty Columbia Hammers on a Mill Creek Ultimate Collection Box. This Region B release is fully appointed with extras.I had the opportunity to sit down and watch the 1971 Hammer movie "Creatures the World Forgot" for the very first time here in 2022. In fact, I had never even heard about the movie prior to getting to sit down and watch it, so I didn't know what to expect here from writer Michael Carreras and director Don Chaffey.

While this isn't as effective overall as Hammers' previous forays into the genre, it still makes for some agreeable entertainment. It IS fairly realistic, however: at no point do humans share the screen with dinosaurs. Starring: Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Robin John, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Sue Wilson, Rosalie Crutchley, Marcia Fox, Gerard Bonthuys, Hans Kiesouw, Josje Kiesouw, Beverly Blake, Doon Baide. Tony Bonner portrays the "Good' brother because he sports a blonde wig. His bad brother, Robin John, who I found the most colorful and handsome, sports dark hair and he scowls throughout. The highlight of the movie is when both brothers engage in a strenuous fight scene with the winner securing the woman of their dreams.

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The movie looks great with outstanding camerawork by Vincent Fox, a musical score from Mario Nascimbene and a nimble and sharp script from Michael Carreras. But best of all, the screen is filled with a small army of beautiful, natural male and female bodies. We’re told that the biggest success of Hammer’s Hollywood co-productions had been One Million Years B.C., which combined breathtaking Canary Islands scenery with Ray Harryhausen dinosaurs, and helped make a star of Raquel Welch. The Fox release surpassed the good box office of the previous year’s She with Ursula Andress. The follow-up When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth reportedly did okay. Director Val Guest complained that Hammer’s Aida Young re-edited the show, and the Jim Danforth effects took longer than the studio wanted — but they’re some of the best non-Harryhausen stop-motion work ever done. While I always enjoy watching and delighting to the movie itself, I also think on another level the tremendous difficulties the cast and crew had to have experienced while working on locales in South Africa, Nimiba and finally in Pinewood Studio in England. The logistics of transporting cast and crew and caterers in these working conditions could not have been easy. A fair young maiden is given unto the leader of our group. The girl (Sue Wilson) becomes the mother of fraternal twins, one fair haired and the other dark haired. The mother dies in child birth. At the same time a girl is born to another who also dies and will be raised along with the boys. The boys compete against one another to win their father's favor.