Posts Tagged ‘prehistoric’
Caveman (1981)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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In this comedy, Atouck (Ringo Starr) becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana (Barbara Bach), the mate of tribe’s head muscle man (John Matuszak), Atouck stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar (Dennis Quaid), and Tala (Shelley Long) learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid dinosaurs. |
King Kong (1976)Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 |
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The owner of the oil company Petrox Corporation, Fred Wilson, invests all his possessions searching oil in an unexplored island. The vessel leaves Surubaya, in Indonesia, with the stowaway Jack Prescott, who wants to protect an ape called Kong. While traveling, they find the castaway Dwan in the middle of nowhere in a rescue boat in the ocean and bring her on board. The group finds that the island is inhabited and the local natives worship a huge gorilla called Kong. They abduct Dwan to offer her in a sacrifice to Kong. The crew hikes into the jungle trying to rescue Dwan. King Kong falls in love with Dwan and protects her against a huge serpent. When Fred finds that the oil in the island is not ready for exploitation, he decides to capture Kong and bring him to New York for exhibition. In the middle of a show, King Kong escapes, bringing panic to the locals. |
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)Friday, June 5th, 2009 |
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Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the “Clan of the Cave Bear” finds little Ayla from the “other”’s clan – tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she may stay – for now. As it turns out later, she’s a bright child, but has a hard time to keep her place in a clan with different customs. She has to hide her intelligence because she’s a woman. |


