Creatures the World Forgot

Creatures the World Forgot (1971)

They don't make them like this anymore... not in a million years!

As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.

Date of release
1971-09-01
TMDB
4.9 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Don Chaffey

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: £420K

Creatures the World Forgot is a 1971 British adventure film directed by Don Chaffey, produced and written for Hammer Films by Michael Carreras. The film concentrates on the daily struggle to survive of a tribe of Stone Age people. Notably the story is told with minimal dialogue, relying instead on grunts, gestures and physical action.

Production

All of the exterior sequences were shot in Namibia and South Africa. The film is the fourth and last of Hammer's "Cave Girl" sequence of films, directed by Don Chaffey and assistant director Simon Petersen, preceded by One Million Years B.C. (1966) (also directed by Don Chaffey), Prehistoric Women (1967) and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970). Like the other films, it trades heavily on the audience appeal of scantily-clad tribeswomen.

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). Made by Amicus Productions and adapted from novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, both films starred Doug McClure.

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