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...hunt is as old as art itself. The an -cient Assyrians celebrated the chase in bas-reliefs, the Chinese in stone drums, the Babylonians and Egyptians in frescoes. Millenniums before, cavemen at the foot of the French Pyrenees depicted a mammoth hunt on their cavern walls. The ingenious killing of beasts larger and more powerful was, after all, the central achievement in man's ascendancy over other forms of life. But the hunt seems early to have been less of a search for food than a heroic confrontation between man and beast, and a sport worthy of kings. Charlemagne...
...catch humans in nets for laboratory experiments or to put in cages at the local zoo. Heston's companions are quickly done in, and soon he is pleading for his life before the head orangutan (Maurice Evans), who wants him gelded and then melded into the tribe of cavemen. Aided by two empathetic chimpanzees (Roddy MacDowall and Kim Hunter), Heston eventually makes his escape across forbidden territory where no monkey hand has ever set foot. There he learns the dreadful secret of why evolution has been reversed, and why simians, not men, rule this most earthlike sphere...
...conversations are imagined by the narrator, glances between characters are supposed to be significant enough to stand for a paragraph or so of exposition, flashbacks fly off like the calendar pages in an old movie. But contrivances do not obscure Mnacko's conclusion: "We're all really cavemen, squabbling over bigger or smaller chunks of meat...
...surefire segment that required about as much daring as kicking a dog around, Paar showed familiar film clips of campaigners working themselves silly: Thomas E. Dewey with citizens dressed as cavemen, Indians adopting Coolidge, John F. Kennedy kissing a baby, and a wanly smiling candidate ascending in a balloon bearing the immortal legend: SCRANTON'S ON THE RISE...
...Other early names for the combo: the Nurk Twins, the Quarrymen Skiffle Group, the Cavemen, the Moondogs, the Moonshiners...