‘Savage! Primitive! Deadly!’
Prehistoric Women is a 1950 American fantasy film directed by Gregg C. Tallas (Night Train to Terror) from a screenplay co-written with Sam X. Abarbanel (Sound of Horror).
The movie stars Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Judy Landon and Mara Lynn.
Released by Alliance Productions, this low-budget independent Cinecolor film was also titled The Virgin Goddess and is narrated by David Vaile (who in 1971 played a TV newscaster in Simon, King of the Witches).
Prehistoric Women is seemingly influenced by and is similar to the seminal 1940 prehistoric film One Million B.C. A loose British remake titled Slave Girls was made in 1967 by Hammer Films and starred Martine Beswick (Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde).
Plot:
Tigri (Laurette Luez) and her stone-age friends, all of whom are women, hate all men. However, she and her Amazon tribe see men as a “necessary evil” and capture them for potential husbands. Engor (Allan Nixon), who is smarter than the rest of the men, can escape them. He battles a bearded giant. After he is recaptured by the women, he discovers fire and drives off a dragon-like creature. The women are impressed with him, including Tigri, their prehistoric queen…
Choice dialogue:
Narrator: “It seems that even in those days, women were still women”.
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