One Million Years B.C.

One Million Years B.C.
UK theatrical release poster (Tom Chantrell)
Directed by	Don Chaffey
Screenplay by	Michael Carreras[1]
Based on	One Million B.C. 1940 film by Mickell Novack George Baker Joseph Frickert
Produced by	Michael Carreras
Starring	Raquel Welch John Richardson Percy Herbert Robert Brown Martine Beswick
Cinematography	Wilkie Cooper
Edited by	Tom Simpson
Music by	Mario Nascimbene
Production companies	Hammer Film Productions Seven Arts
Distributed by	Warner-Pathé Distributors
Release dates	25 October 1966 (1966-10-25) (London) 30 December 1966 (1966-12-30)
Running time	100 minutes (U.K.) 91 minutes (U.S.)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£422,816[2]
Box office	$8 million (United States)[2]

One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventure fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey. The film was produced by Hammer Film Productions and Seven Arts, and is a remake of the 1940 American fantasy film One Million B.C.. The film stars Raquel Welch and John Richardson, set in a fictional age of cavemen and dinosaurs coexisting together. Location scenes were filmed on the Canary Islands in the middle of winter, in late 1965. The UK release prints of this film were printed in dye transfer Technicolor. The U.S. version released by 20th Century Fox was cut by nine minutes,^[3] printed in DeLuxe Color, and released in 1967.^[4]

Like the original film, this remake is largely ahistorical. It portrays dinosaurs and humans living at the same point in time; according to the geological time scale, the last non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago, and modern humans (Homo sapiens) did not exist until about 300,000 years B.C. Ray Harryhausen, who animated all of the dinosaur attacks using stop-motion animation techniques, commented on the U.S. King Kong DVD that he did not make One Million Years B.C. for "professors...who probably don't go to see these kinds of movies anyway."