Cavemen vs. Dinosaurs and the Making of One Million Years B.C.

What kid doesn’t like dinosaurs? And movies about dinosaurs are even better, as the continuing popularity of the Jurassic Park series proves. In the 1960s the big dinosaur movie was One Million Years B.C. and even bigger than the movie was the leading lady, Raquel Welch. Her famous pose in a fur-skin bikini made her an icon of the decade and an enduring star. Here is the story of the making of One Million Years B.C. and all the caveman vs. dinosaurs movies that came before and after it. Gary Smith is a writer residing in Palm Springs. This is his 10th book on various aspects of film history. His previous books cover such diverse subjects as the exploitation movies of American-International and the classic films of 20th Century-Fox. During the pandemic he published his first novel, The Play’s the Thing.