One Million B.C. Overview:

One Million B.C. (1940) was a Adventure - Fantasy Film directed by Hal Roach and Hal Roach Jr. and produced by D.W. Griffith and Hal Roach.

Academy Awards 1940 --- Ceremony Number 13 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringWerner HeymannNominated
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ONE MILLION B.C.

By Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 27, 2025 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

My birthday was a couple days ago, and my good buddy Josh Kennedy usually gets me a present. This year he gifted me the VCI Blu-ray of Hal Roach's ONE MILLION B.C., the 1940 prehistoric adventure that was famously remade by Hammer Films in the mid 1960s as ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. with Raquel Welch. I... Read full article


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In order to get the lizards to move, heaters had to be turned on full blast because reptiles don't move in cold weather.
The special effects were so good that special effect footage from this film was used in numerous other films produced well into the 1960s.
Lon Chaney Jr. designed his own makeup for Akhoba, but couldn't use it owing to Cosmetician's Union rules.
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