A followup to the Raquel Welch/Ray Harryhausen film One Million Years B.C..
The film has excellent stop motion dinosaur special effects from Jim Danforth who also did the matte paintings and for want of a better phrase "eye popping" views of model Victoria Verdi.
The director and screenwriter Val Guest who also seemed game for trying out something different has cooked up a story from J. G. Ballard and he has crammed so much action into it that the fact that the cast can only speak in monosyllabic words doesn't distract from the happenings one single bit.
I doubt that Victoria Verdi was ever much of an actress since I see a credit for her in that classic film Invasion of the Bee Girls. But nobody at Hammer hired her because they saw her on the stage performing Hedda Gabler.
The film was shot on location in the Canary Islands which from the looks of it probably isn't much of a vacation spot.
The film made money for Hammer studios and was followed by Creatures the World Forgot, which was a real step down from the two previous films.
The running time is 100 minutes. 96 minutes in the U.S. because the frontal nudity was cut out.
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