Teenage Cave Man (1958)

Calificación de los usuarios:

2.4/10   

Director:

Roger Corman

Guionista:

R. Wright Campbell (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

julio 1958 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Ciencia-Ficción

Frase comercial:

The future of humanity is in his hands

Plot:

A young man defies tribal laws and searches for answers. The result of his quest yields knowledge of past generations.

Plot Keywords:

Caveman | Post Apocalyptic | Great Dane | Post Nuclear War | End Of Civilization

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Thought-provoking atomic age parable which rises above its limited ambience to yield a memorably moving and intelligent filmic experience.

Reparto

Robert Vaughn	...	The Symbol Maker's teenage son
Darah Marshall	...	The Blond Maiden
Leslie Bradley	...	The Symbol Maker
Frank DeKova	...	The Black-Bearded One
Charles P. Thompson	...	Member of the tribe (as Charles Thompson)
June Jocelyn	...	The Symbol Maker's wife
Jonathan Haze	...	The curly-haired boy
Beach Dickerson	...	Fair-haired boy / Man from Burning Plains / Tom-tom player / Bear
Ed Nelson	...	Blond tribe member
Robert Shayne	...	The Keeper of the Small Fire
Marshall Bradford	...	Member of the tribe
Joseph Hamilton	...	Member of the tribe (as Joseph H. Hamilton)

También conocida como:

Out of the Darkness
Prehistoric World
Teenage Caveman (USA) (alternative spelling)
El adolescente de las cavernas (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

65 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (Certificate #19088)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Arcadia, California, USA

Compañía:

Malibu Productions

Trivialidades:

Robert Vaughn said in an interview that he considered this to be the worst film ever made.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "Mystery Science Theater 3000: Teenage Caveman (#4.15)" (1991)

Thought-provoking atomic age parable which rises above its limited ambience to yield a memorably moving and intelligent filmic experience.

Conceived in the era of the 1950's nuclear holocaust scare, TEENAGE CAVEMAN is an inspired (albeit low-budget) reflection of this period's fears and a worthy attempt by producer/director Roger Corman to present more serious subject matter in the sci-fi genre.

On the plus side is the noteworthy script by R. Wright Campbell. Mr. Campbell's association with Roger Corman includes scripts for FIVE GUNS WEST, MACHINE GUN KELLY, THE YOUNG RACERS, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (in which he re-wrote "Twilight Zone" fantasist Charles Beaumont's submitted script for this film) and THE SECRET INVASION. Borrowing heavily the plot and ideas from Stephen Vincent Benet's short story, "By the Waters of Babylon," Campbell presents the intelligent, inquisitive and introspective son of the "symbol maker" (earnestly played by a 26 year old Robert Vaughn), who attempts to extend the boundaries of knowledge and existence well beyond the immediate environs. Most of this remarkable film's meaningful dialogue is conveyed through the Robert Vaughn character and writer Campbell invests the story with a profundity and poignancy which is sadly lacking in most of the bland, dismal pap usually served up as entertainment.

In addition to the casting coup of Robert Vaughn and R. Wright Campbell's exceptional script, praise must also be extended to composer Albert Glasser's well-crafted and inspired music score (particularly effective during the climatic denouement). Glasser is one of the unsung maestros of film scoring in the sci-fi "B" genre (along with his contemporaries such as Ronald Stein, Paul Dunlap, Raoul Krausher, Marlin Skiles and Walter Greene) and many a low-budget feature has benefited considerably from his skilled and gifted contribution.

TEENAGE CAVEMAN quietly presents its message to the viewer with sincerity and dignity. It stands as an honourable effort to enlighten as well as to entertain and exemplifies that in good film-making with the constraints of time and budget, the necessity of more creativity, ingenuity and talent to fill the gap.