Creatures the World Forgot – 1971

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
Storyline
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.
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
1st Asst. Director | Ferdinand Fairfax | 26 | 1 Aug 1944 | 7 Mar 2008 | 63 | 1 |
2nd Asst. Director | Simon Peterson | 1 | ||||
Animals | Uwe D Schultz | 1 | ||||
Assistant Art Directors | Josie MacAvin | 52 | 1919 | 26 Jan 2005 | 86 | 1 |
Assistant Art Directors | Roy Taylor | 1 | ||||
Camera Operator | Ernie Robinson | 2 | ||||
Casting Director | James Liggat | 51 | 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 |
Continuity | Lolly Walder | 1 | ||||
Directed by | Don Chaffey | 53 | 5 Aug 1917 | 13 Nov 1990 | 73 | 6 |
Dubbing Mixer | Ken Barker (2) | 53 | 1918 | 13 Feb 2001 | 83 | 10 |
Editor | Chris Barnes | 33 | 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 |
Hairdressing Supervisor | Jeanette Freeman | 4 | ||||
Lighting | Mole Richardson | 1 | ||||
Location Management | Sun Salaris | 1 | ||||
Make-up Supervisor | Bill Lodge | 1 | ||||
Music Composed by | Mario Nascimbene | 57 | 28 Nov 1913 | 6 Jan 2002 | 88 | 4 |
Music Supervisor | Philip Martell | 63 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 |
Photographed by | Vincent Cox | 1 | ||||
Produced by | Michael Carreras | 43 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 83 |
Production Designer | John Stoll | 57 | 13 Dec 1913 | 25 Jun 1990 | 76 | 5 |
Production Manager | Jack Martin | 71 | 15 Mar 1899 | 3 | ||
Second Unit Cameraman | Ray Sturgess | 42 | 29 Oct 1928 | 1 Jan 2000 | 71 | 2 |
Sound Editors | Roy Hyde | 50 | 15 Feb 1920 | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 |
Sound Editors | Terry Poulton | 41 | 1930 | 1993 | 63 | 16 |
Sound Recordist | John Streeter | 46 | 1925 | 2012 | 87 | 8 |
Special Effects | Sid Pearson | 9 | ||||
Stills Cameraman | Albert Clarke | 1 | ||||
Technical Advisor | Adrien Boshier | 1 | ||||
Wardrobe Master | Roy Ponting | 52 | 6 Jan 1918 | 5 Apr 1973 | 55 | 1 |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | ||||
Written by | Michael Carreras | 43 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 83 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
The "Dark" Boy | Robin John | 1 | ||||
The "Fair" Boy | Tony Bonner | 27 | 23 Nov 1943 | Living | 77 | 1 |
The Dancer | Rosita Moulan | 1 | ||||
The Dumb Girl | Marcia Fox | 27 | 1 Sep 1943 | Living | 77 | 1 |
The Father | Brian O'Shaughnessy | 39 | 5 May 1931 | 14 Jul 2001 | 70 | 1 |
The Girl | Julie Ege | 27 | 12 Nov 1943 | 29 Apr 2008 | 64 | 2 |
The Leader of the Fair Tribe | Ken Hare | 1 | ||||
The Marauder Leader | Frank Swart | 1 | ||||
The Mother | Sue Wilson | 1 | ||||
The Murderer | Frank Hayden | 42 | 1929 | 1988 | 59 | 4 |
The Old Crone | Rosalie Crutchley | 50 | 4 Jan 1920 | 28 Jul 1997 | 77 | 2 |
The Old Leader | Don Leonard | 1 | ||||
The Young "Dark" Boy | Hans Kiesouw | 1 | ||||
The Young "Fair" Boy | Gerard Bonthuys | 1 | ||||
The Young Dumb Girl | Josje Kiesouw | 1 | ||||
Young Lovers | Beverley Blake | 1 | ||||
Young Lovers | Doon Baide | 1 |
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, there are no dinosaurs, 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
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection