The Rock Tribe is a group of nomadic Stone Age hunters, who constantly battle with their harsh environment for survival. Their leader has two sons, a good, fair one and an evil, dark one. The fair one becomes the leader of the tribe on their father’s death, but a deadly struggle of good against evil breaks out when the dark one challenges his brother’s position.
Production Details
A Hammer production released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLXX Hammer Film Productions Ltd. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Westrex Sound System
Made by Hammer Film Productions Ltd., London, England
Sound Recording at Pinewood Studios London, England
Technicolor 95 mins
Filming Began: 1st July 1970
UK Release: 18th July 1971
Studio:
Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire
Locations:
South Africa – Jungle scenes with antilope, oryx, wildebeest, warthog, brown hyena, crested porcupine, snakes and a scorpion
Namibia – Desert dune scenes
Stills from film
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Original Poster
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Footnotes
The film was photographed entirely on location in South Africa. The vast areas of naked flesh are nearly as expansive as the desert locations in this, Hammer’s first X-rated prehistoric romp.
However, despite the title, the film doesn’t include a single creature “the world forgot”, there are no dinosaurs, with their extinction this time being due to a lack of budget, rather than to any sudden climatic change or the earth being hit by a giant asteroid. A case not so much of being forgotten as being unaffordable!
Julie Ege was a former Miss Norway whose brief film career also included the Marty Feldman comedy, Every Home Should Have One (1970) and Hammer’s The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974). She died from breast cancer at the age of 64