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...Million B.C." is a story of civilization in-the -raw, democracy-in-diapers. Among its many attractions are various over-sized lizards (alias ictheobrontosorsithiuses, er' somethin'), the super-colossal eruption of a gigantic volcano--in miniature, and a blonde named Carol Landis who kicks the stone-age gong around with nothing on but a smile and a bit of rhinoceros hide. Great fun for the kiddies between the ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left the Kingfish lacerated, pop-mouthed, speechless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ashurst Out | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...grisly Rock People are scarcely less gluttonous. In one spirited set-to over supper, Tumak, the picture's Tarzan-like hero (Victor Mature), is heaved off a cliff by Angry Volcano, his father (Lon Chancy Jr.). Five minutes later he is heaved off another cliff by a mammoth. Amid assorted saurians Tumak floats safely down to the country of the Shell People, who are soft-living sybarites about 1,001,940 years ahead of their time. Even a cave man can see that Shining Star, their blonde leading lady (Carole Landis), is a Hollywood babe in a deerskin playsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

Modern audiences should not be surprised when Tumak carries off Cinemactress Landis to civilize his own family. She is making fair headway when an erupting volcano, a river of molten lava, an earthquake and a siege by the biggest lizard of all unexpectedly further Progress by merging the Shell and Rock tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...original plan had been to sink match-sticks into the plaster so that the mask could be stripped off in neat sections, but Trevaskis himself finally released the volcano-like heat by crushing the mask with his hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND HOUSE SOPHOMORE TRAPPED IN HOT LIFE-MASK | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

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