Prehistoric Women (1967), dir. Michael Carreras, Hammer Film Productions-Seven Arts
Also known as Slave Girls when it was released in the UK, Hammer opted to reuse the sets and costumes from One Million Years, BC, but would the success be repeated?
David Marchant (Michael Latimer) is your typical Great White Hunter on safari in deepest, darkest Africa. Shooting a leopard dead gets him captured by a local tribe. They take his presence as an affront to their god, the white rhino. Dragged to their local temple for a sacrifice, David ends up touching a white rhino staute which somehow triggers an earthquake.
In the confusion, David slips free and jumps through a hole in the wall. He quickly finds himself in a jungle that he's never seen before. He finds a beautiful blonde woman running for her life. Saria (Edina Ronay) is fleeing from a tribe of hunters consisting of dark haired women. They both get captured and Saria brings David up to speed.
To wit, her tribe are forced to serve the women who just captured them, as per the rule of Queen Kari (Martine Beswick). The queen likes what she sees though, but when David turns her down she chucks him in a cell with Saria, who drops that's she's next in line for a sacrifice to the Devils that live in the surrounding jungle.
David is finally moved to a cell with the men from Saria's tribe, who clue him in on the whole 'white rhino' thing. TLDR-in order to be free, the rhino statue has to be destroyed.
Can David rally the cavemen to fight? Is the whole thing a dream?
Yeah, honestly the ending is bit of a copout and the whole 'Devils' thing doesn't age very well (and I doubt it did in 1967 either). Of all the stone age adventure flicks, this isn't the worst, but it is far from the best.
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