One Million B.C.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces One Million B.C., 1940.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces One Million B.C., 1940.

Exile pre-historic lovers from different tribes Tumak and Loana (Victor Mature and Carole Landis, both in their first lead roles, for producer-director Hal Roach) pause for a famously inhumane battle between a modified alligator and an iguana, in One Million B.C., 1940.

Hiding from a storm in the Alps, climbers addressed by a scholar they met in a cave (Conrad Nagel), only too willing to reveal what he's learned, offering Carole Landis and Victor Mature as models for the story he's deduced, opening Hal Roach's One Million B.C., 1940.