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One Million B.C., the Glossary

One Million B.C. is a 1940 American fantasy film produced by Hal Roach Studios and released by United Artists.^[1]

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1940s fantasy films
1940s monster movies
English-language fantasy films

Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Alfredo B. Crevenna

Alfredo B. Crevenna (22 April 1914 – 30 August 1996) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter.

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Alligator

An alligator, or colloquially gator, is a large reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia.

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American alligator

The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States and a small section of northeastern Mexico.

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American Brahman

The Brahman is an American breed of zebuine-taurine hybrid beef cattle.

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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Argentine black and white tegu

The Argentine black and white tegu (Salvator merianae), also known as the Argentine giant tegu, the black and white tegu, or the huge tegu, is a species of lizard in the family Teiidae.

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Asian elephant

The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south.

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Atom Man vs. Superman

Atom Man vs.

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Biograph Company

The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916.

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Bomba, the Jungle Boy

Bomba the Jungle Boy is a series of American boys' adventure books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Roy Rockwood.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Carole Landis

Carole Landis (born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste; January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American actress and singer.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Caveman

The caveman is a stock character representative of primitive humans in the Paleolithic. One Million B.C. and caveman are prehistoric people in popular culture.

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Coati

Coatis (from Tupí), also known as coatimundis, are members of the family Procyonidae in the genera Nasua and Nasuella (comprising the subtribe Nasuina).

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Conrad Nagel

John Conrad Nagel (March 16, 1897 – February 24, 1970) was an American film, stage, television and radio actor.

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Cruelty to animals

Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction of suffering or harm by humans upon animals, either by omission (neglect) or by commission.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director.

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Dactyloidae

Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Dimetrodon

Dimetrodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid belonging to the family Sphenacodontidae that lived during the Cisuralian age of the Early Permian period, around 295–272 million years ago.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

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Elmer Raguse

Elmer R. Raguse (May 9, 1901 – March 2, 1972) was an American sound engineer mostly associated with the Hal Roach Studios.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Glyptodon

Glyptodon is a genus of glyptodont, an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos, that lived from the Pliocene, around 3.2 million years ago, to the early Holocene, around 11,000 years ago, in South America.

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Glyptodont

Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armoured armadillos, reaching up to in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes.

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Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach Sr.Skretvedt, Randy (2016), Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies, Bonaventure Press.

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Hal Roach Jr.

Harold Eugene Roach Jr. (June 15, 1918 – March 29, 1972) was an American film and television producer.

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Hal Roach Studios

Hal Roach Studios was an American motion picture and television production studio.

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Harrison's Reports

Harrison's Reports was a New York City–based motion picture trade journal published weekly from 1919 to 1962.

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Harry Wilson (actor)

Harry Wilson (22 November 1897 – 6 September 1978) was a British character actor who appeared in over 300 films from 1928 to 1965 and proudly proclaimed himself "Hollywood's ugliest man".

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Iguana

Iguana is a genus of herbivorous lizards that are native to tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

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Inez Palange

Inez Palange (June 13, 1889 – October 16, 1962), also written as Ines Palange, was an Italian-born American actress and singer who was best known for her role as Mrs.

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Innamorati

Innamorati were stock characters within the theatre style known as commedia dell'arte, who appeared in 16th-century Italy.

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Jacqueline Dalya

Jacqueline Dalya (August 3, 1918November 25, 1980) was an American film and stage actress who began her career in the 1940s, appearing in films and on Broadway.

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John Hubbard (actor)

John Hubbard (April 14, 1914 – November 6, 1988) was an American television and film actor.

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John Mosher (writer)

John Chapin Mosher (June 2, 1892 – September 3, 1942) was an American short story writer as well as the first regularly assigned film critic for The New Yorker, a position he held from 1928 to 1942.

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John Richardson (actor)

John Richardson (19 January 1934 – 5 January 2021) was an English actor who appeared in films from the late 1950s until the early 1990s.

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Journey to the Center of Time

Journey to the Center of Time is a 1967 U.S. science fiction film, directed by David L. Hewitt, and starring Scott Brady, Anthony Eisley, Gigi Perreau and Abraham Sofaer.

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Jungle Jim

Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media.

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Jungle Manhunt

Jungle Manhunt is a 1951 adventure film written by Samuel Newman and directed by Lew Landers.

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King Dinosaur

King Dinosaur is a 1955 science fiction film starring William Bryant and Wanda Curtis with narration by Marvin Miller. One Million B.C. and King Dinosaur are films about dinosaurs and giant monster films.

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Lava

Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.

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List of films featuring dinosaurs

This is a list of films that feature non-avian dinosaurs and other prehistoric (mainly Mesozoic) archosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. One Million B.C. and list of films featuring dinosaurs are films about dinosaurs.

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Lizard

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Lon Chaney Jr.

Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 – July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film The Wolf Man (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backward) in Son of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films, including six films in their 1940s Inner Sanctum series, making him a horror icon.

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Mamo Clark

Marguerite Mamo Clark (December 6, 1914 – December 18, 1986), sometimes billed as Mamo, was an American actress and author.

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Megistotherium

Megistotherium is an extinct genus of hyaenodont belonging to the family Hyainailouridae that lived in Africa.

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Monitor lizard

Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae.

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Muskox

The muskox (Ovibos moschatus, in Latin "musky sheep-ox"), also spelled musk ox and musk-ox, plural muskoxen or musk oxen (in translit; in translit, label), is a hoofed mammal of the family Bovidae.

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Nigel De Brulier

Nigel De Brulier (born Francis George Packer; 8 August 1877 – 30 January 1948) was an English stage and film actor who began his career in the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States.

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Norbert Brodine

Nobert Brodine (December 16, 1896 – February 28, 1970), also credited as Norbert F. Brodin and Norbert Brodin, was an American film cinematographer.

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Norman Budd

Norman Budd (27 January 1914 – 10 September 2006) was a British-born actor in American films and television.

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Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

Of Mice and Men is a 1939 American drama film based on the 1937 play of the same name, which itself was based on the novella of the same name by author John Steinbeck.

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One Million Years B.C.

One Million Years B.C. is a 1966 British adventure fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey. One Million B.C. and One Million Years B.C. are films about cavemen, films about dinosaurs and giant monster films.

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Pig

The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Raquel Welch

Jo Raquel Welch (September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress.

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Remake

A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film".

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Rhinoceros iguana

The rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta) is an endangered species of iguana that is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and its surrounding islands.

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Robot Monster

Robot Monster (or Monster from Mars) United States Copyright Office Public Catalog.

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Rockslide

A rockslide is a type of landslide caused by rock failure in which part of the bedding plane of failure passes through compacted rock and material collapses en masse and not in individual blocks.

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Roy Seawright

Roy Seawright (November 19, 1905, in Los Angeles, California – April 30, 1991, in Torrance, California) was a Hollywood special effects technician, principally with Hal Roach Studios.

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She Demons

She Demons is a 1957 American independent black-and-white science fiction horror film, produced by Arthur A. Jacobs and Marc Frederic, directed and co-written by Richard E. Cunha, that stars Irish McCalla, Tod Griffin, and Victor Sen Yung.

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Six-banded armadillo

The six-banded armadillo (Euphractus sexcinctus), also known as the yellow armadillo, is an armadillo found in South America.

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Smoky Canyon

Smoky Canyon is a 1952 American Western musical film directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Charles Starrett, Jock Mahoney, Danni Sue Nolan, Tris Coffin, and Larry Hudson.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

A Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is a common name for non-profit animal welfare organizations around the world.

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Space Ship Sappy

Space Ship Sappy is a 1957 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe Besser).

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Spearfishing

Spearfishing is fishing using handheld elongated, sharp-pointed tools such as a spear, gig, or harpoon, to impale the fish in the body.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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Sun bear

The sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) is a species in the family Ursidae (the only species in the genus Helarctos) occurring in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.

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Superman (serial)

Superman is a 1948 15-part Columbia Pictures film serial based on the comic book character Superman.

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Tarzan's Desert Mystery

Tarzan's Desert Mystery is a 1943 American Tarzan film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Johnny Weissmuller and Nancy Kelly.

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Teenage Caveman (1958 film)

Teenage Caveman (also known as Out of the Darkness in the United Kingdom) is a 1958 American independent black-and-white science fiction adventure film produced and directed by Roger Corman, and starring Robert Vaughn and Darah Marshall. One Million B.C. and Teenage Caveman (1958 film) are films about cavemen and films about dinosaurs.

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TerrorVision

TerrorVision is a 1986 American science fiction horror comedy film directed by Ted Nicolaou, produced and written by Albert and Charles Band and composed by Richard Band, all of whom would go on to found and work with Full Moon Features in 1989.

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The Film Daily

The Film Daily was a daily publication that existed from 1918 to 1970 in the United States.

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The Housekeeper's Daughter

The Housekeeper's Daughter is a 1939 comedy/drama film directed and produced by Hal Roach. One Million B.C. and The Housekeeper's Daughter are films directed by Hal Roach.

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The Lost Planet (serial)

The Lost Planet is a 1953 American science fiction serial film 15-chapter serial which has the distinction of being the last interplanetary-themed sound serial ever made.

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The Lost Volcano

The Lost Volcano is a 1950 American adventure film.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Schaefer Century Theatre

The Schaefer Century Theatre is a 30-minute American television anthology series sponsored by Schaefer Beer.

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The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures.

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Triceratops

Triceratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.

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Two Lost Worlds

Two Lost Worlds is a 1951 science fiction/adventure film directed by Norman Dawn and starring James Arness and Laura Elliott. One Million B.C. and Two Lost Worlds are films about dinosaurs.

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United Artists

United Artists (UA) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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Untamed Women

Untamed Women is a 1952 independently made American science fiction film, directed by W. Merle Connell, written by George Wallace Sayre, and starring Mikel Conrad and Doris Merrick. One Million B.C. and Untamed Women are films about cavemen and films about dinosaurs.

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Valley of the Dragons (film)

Valley of the Dragons (UK title: Prehistoric Valley) is a black and white 1961 American science fiction film loosely based on Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and heavily dependent on stock footage from the movies One Million B.C., King Dinosaur, Cat-Women of the Moon and Rodan. One Million B.C. and Valley of the Dragons (film) are films about cavemen, films about dinosaurs and giant monster films.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_B.C.

Also known as 1 Million B.C., 1 Million BC, One Million B C, One Million B. C., One Million BC, One million b.c. (1940 film).

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1940s fantasy films

1940s monster movies

English-language fantasy films

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