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PostSubject: Caveman (1981)   Caveman (1981) I_icon_minitimeSun Jun 20, 2010 10:31 pm

Any fans? I've always loved this movie and is the best thing George Harrison ever did in his entire career IMO.



Caveman is a 1981 slapstick comedy film financed by George Harrison, written and directed by Carl Gottlieb and starring Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Shelley Long and Dennis Quaid.

Atouk is a bullied and scrawny caveman living in "One Zillion BC - October 9th" (apparently in memory of John Lennon, who was killed 5 months before the film's release, he was Ringo Starr's friend and bandmate with The Beatles, whose birthday was October 9). He lusts after the beautiful but shallow Lana, who is the mate of Tonda, their tribe's physically imposing leader. After being banished along with his friend Lar, Atouk falls in with a band of assorted misfits, among them the comely Tala and the elderly blind man Gog. The group has ongoing encounters with hungry dinosaurs, and rescues Lar from a "nearby ice age", where they encounter an abominable snowman. In the course of these adventures they discover sedative drugs, fire, cooking, music, and learn how to walk fully upright. Atouk uses these advancements to lead an attack on Tonda, overthrowing him and becoming the tribe's new leader. He discards Lana and takes Tala as his mate, and they live happily ever after.

The movie was filmed in Durango, Durango, Mexico, using the Sierra De Organos near Sombrerete, Zacatecas, Mexico for exteriors, and features stop-motion animated dinosaurs constructed by Jim Danforth, including a Tyrannosaurus rex which in one scene becomes intoxicated by a Cannabis-type drug, animated by Randall W. Cook. Danforth was a major participant in the special effects sequences, but left the film "about two-thirds of the way" (his words) through the work because the Directors Guild of America prohibited his contracted on-screen credit, co-direction with Carl Gottlieb. Consequently, Danforth's name does not appear on the film.

At some showings audiences were issued a translation pamphlet for 30 "caveman words." The only English dialog present is used for comedic effect, when it is spoken by a caveman played by Evan Kim who speaks modern English but is understood by none of the other characters. Being a Korean caveman, by speaking English, he appears to be more advanced than the rest. At her audition Shelley Long says she did not speak any English, but responded to everything with grunts.

Barbara Bach and Ringo Starr first met on the set of Caveman, and married just over a year later.

Ringo Starr as Atouk
Dennis Quaid as Lar
Shelley Long as Tala
Jack Gilford as Gog
Barbara Bach as Lana
Evan C. Kim as Nook
Carl Lumbly as Bork
John Matuszak as Tonda
Avery Schreiber as Ock
Richard Moll as Abominable Snowman
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PostSubject: Re: Caveman (1981)   Caveman (1981) I_icon_minitimeMon Jun 21, 2010 12:31 am

I was 11 when this movie came out, tanked and then ended up on perpetual rotation on HBO for the next year. I probably watched it a half dozen times.

Even at age 11 it's fairly obvious how amateurish the humor is...but it still worked nonetheless.

However, I'm going completely from memory as I have never seen it since.

I do remember several fart jokes...including a flaming one...
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PostSubject: Re: Caveman (1981)   Caveman (1981) I_icon_minitimeWed Dec 08, 2010 12:35 pm

One of the greatest movies ever made, I think its way cool that even my kids love it.

"Atouk, Lana, ZugZug"[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
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PostSubject: Re: Caveman (1981)   Caveman (1981) I_icon_minitimeWed Mar 16, 2011 3:18 pm

Detuned wrote:
I was 11 when this movie came out, tanked and then ended up on perpetual rotation on HBO for the next year. I probably watched it a half dozen times.


Me too...but I was 10. Very Happy
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