| Prehistoric Women | |
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| Directed by | Michael Carreras |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Written by | Michael Carreras |
| Starring | Martine Beswick Michael Latimer Steven Berkoff |
| Music by | Carlo Martelli |
| Cinematography | Michael Reed |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Hammer Film Productions |
| Release date(s) | 25 January 1967 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Language | English |
Prehistoric Women is a 1967 adventure film. Also known as Slave Girls, the film starred Martine Beswick, Michael Latimer and Steven Berkoff.
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David Marchant (Latimer) is pursuing a leopard on an African safari when he is captured by a primitive tribe. They accuse him of disturbing the spirit of the white rhinoceros, and take him to their leader's temple. He is about to be killed for his trespassing when a flash of lightning opens a giant crack in the cave wall.
Latimer escapes into a lush paradise, and encounters a fair-haired beauty called Saria, played by Edina Ronay. She is a member of a tribe of blonde women who are enslaved by their cruel mistresses, dark-haired warriors led by the beautiful Queen Kari (Beswick). The Queen chooses Latimer as her mate, but he is appalled by her cruelty and spurns her advances.
The film was a remake of the 1950 American film Prehistoric Women, and was most widely seen in a heavily truncated 77 minute version, sometimes under the title 'Slave Girls' . One of the most bizarre films ever released by Hammer, it was produced using sets and costumes left over from the film One Million Years B.C. (1966), which had starred Raquel Welch and featured Martine Beswick. Further films by Hammer which traded heavily on the appeal of scantily clad cave girls were When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) and Creatures the World Forgot (1971).[1]