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One Million B.C. is a primitive human versus dinosaur movie that was nominated for two Oscars. While the remake with Raquel Welch is better known today, the movie was popular at the time.

In the modern day, a lost party wanders into a cave. A scientist there agrees to tell them the story of the cave-markings. After setting up the situation by drawing parallels between members of the party and hypothetical members of primitive tribes, he explains that the cave people had the same reasoning abilities as modern people.

The story then unfolds in the past. Tumak (Victor Mature) is part of the carnivorous Rock People tribe. He is literally thrown out, and is found by the vegetarian Shell People.

The relatively uncivilized Tumak eventually integrates into the tribe. They expose him to such things as spears, torches, and apparently, laughter.

The movie does not follow modern concepts of the past. Dinosaurs exist at the same time as nearly-modern humans and wooly mammoths. However, the cave people are given a wide-range of emotions, and are taken seriously by the production.