Line #38 Film/WhenDinosaursRuledTheEarth


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The original movie poster]]
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4	''When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth'' is a 1970 film, directed by Creator/ValGuest and starring Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen, Drewe Henley, Sean Caffrey, Magda Konopka, Creator/ImogenHassall, and Patrick Holt. A production of Hammer Films, it serves as a spiritual successor to their earlier film ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC''.
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6	Like its predecessor, it included a great many stop motion dinosaurs and attractive women in fur bikinis. The plot, such as it is, is that in the dawning days of humanity there is a tribe who sacrifice blonde women for better weather. One of these women, Sanna, is able to escape and comes to live among another tribe. There, she falls in love with a tribesman named Tara. But when her new tribe opts to sell her back to her old, Sanna is cast out. Now she and Tara must try to survive in the dinosaur-infested wilderness while being hunted by the tribes.
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8	''When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth'' was never as popular as its predecessor but is considerably more popular than its successor, ''Creatures the World Forgot'', which abandoned dinosaurs entirely in favour of simple {{Fanservice}}.
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10	Subject of prehistory aside, has nothing to do with the documentary series ''Series/WhenDinosaursRuled''.
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12	!!''When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth'' contains examples of:
13	* AnachronismStew: Primitive humans, dinosaurs, and ''the formation of the moon'' all at once.
14	* CataclysmClimax: The film ends with some kind of astronomical/seismic/meteorological event that somehow created the Moon.
15	* ConLang: The Cavepeople here speak a made up language which seems to repeat quite a few words. In particular "Neecha" seems to be used for every negative idea.
16	* DistressedDude: In the climax Tara is captured and about to be burned alive. Then the [[GiantEnemyCrab giant crabs]] appear and distract the enemy long enough for Sanna to save him.
17	* DomesticatedDinosaurs: Sanna manages to domesticate a ''Megalosaurus''.
18	* {{Fanservice}}: Absolutely full of it, up to and including full nudity.
19	* FantasticRacism: Blondes are considered evil and sacrificed to the sun.
20	* GiantEnemyCrab: A few show up at the end to kill unfortunate cavepeople.
21	* GivingThemTheStrip: Sanna becomes trapped by a ManEatingPlant, and cuts off a portion of her hair in order to escape. As Tara goes looking for Sanna, he finds her hair trapped beneath the plant and assumes she is dead.
22	* GreenEyedMonster: Ayak hates Sanna for stealing Tara away from her, and constantly schemes for ways to get rid of her.
23	* HollywoodPrehistory: The film features thrilling battles between cavepeople and dinosaurs.
24	* HotterAndSexier: Not only are the outfits smaller, you get to see them come off. (One DVD edition accidentally left the nudity in despite being labeled "PG.")
25	%%* HumanSacrifice: Practiced against blondes.
26	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Happens to several members of Sanna's tribe, courtesy of an enraged ''Chasmosaurus''.
27	* {{Imprinting}}: Inverted. The carnivorous dinosaur believes Sanna is one of her young upon finding her sleeping in a broken eggshell in her nest.
28	* MamaBear: The carnivorous dinosaur Sanna encounters mistakes her for one of its young and later fights to defend her.
29	%%* ManEatingPlant: Sanna very narrowly escapes from one.
30	%%* MsFanservice: Sanna, and every other young female.
31	* MurderByCremation: Kingsor attempts to dispose of Tara by tying him to a funeral pyre on a raft and sending the rat out to sea in a VikingFuneral.
32	%%* NubileSavage: Sanna and the rest of the female tribe members.
33	* QuicksandSucks: Ayak is ultimately sucked in by some random quicksand.
34	* SeaMonster: The ''Elasmosaurus'' will go out of its way to attack a burning raft, unlike the real animal which was a bottom-feeder.
35	* SkinnyDipping: Tara and Sanna enjoy a nude swim after having sex.
36	* {{Slurpasaur}}: A modified monitor lizard is seen, and later fights a modified crocodilian of some sort. (Unfortunately, this means animals probably ''were'' harmed to make the movie; it didn't look like a play-fight.)
37	* ShoutOut: The carnivorous dinosaur Sanna befriends is very similar to the Rhedosaurus from ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms''.
38	* {{Stripperific}}: The clothing here is even skimpier than in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC''.
39	* TerrorDactyl: While Tara is hiking back to his tribe, which has been taken over by the overzealous Kingsor, he is carried off by a giant ''Rhamphorhynchus''.
40	* VikingFuneral: Tara's tribe dispose of their dead by placing the body on a funeral pyre built on a raft, lighting the pyre, and then sending the raft out to sea.

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