The last Amicus film, The People That Time Forgot, is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and is based on two Edgar Rice Burroughs books, The People That Time Forgot and Out of Time’s Abyss.
Major Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne) travels to Antarctica in search of his friend, Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure), the hero of the first movie. Along with his crew — Norfolk (Thorley Walters), Hogan (Shane Rimmer) and Lady Charlotte Cunningham (Sarah Douglas) — they make it to Caprona just in time to nearly be eaten by a pterodactyl.
They meet both the samurai-volcano-worshiping army of the Nargas and Ajor (Dana Gillespie), a cave girl who has been taught English by Tyler. As for Tyler, he’s been taken by the Nargas and needs to be rescued, but when the volcano erupts, maybe no one will survive.
American International Pictures took all the credit for this when it was released, as Amicus had already closed.
Directed by Kevin Connor and written by Patrick Tilley, this is a blast. A pre-Darth Vader David Prowse even shows up as an executioner, as does Richard LeParmentier, who was General Motti in that movie. Plus, there are several Frank Frazetta paintings.
Gillespie spoke of her costume with some humor, as she was a bit more curvy than your usual cavewoman. No complaints! She said, “Well, it’s mainly because they always seemed to give me the chamois-leather bits that Raquel Welch had discarded from One Million Years B.C. My costumes were actually much bigger than hers; she’s got the right shape for a bikini, which I clearly haven’t, really. But if you play a native girl, there’s only one sort of costume you can be put into: it’s either bits of fur or bits of suede leather.”
Someone noticed. I love these IMDB goofs: “Prehistoric Ajor is clearly wearing eye shadow, eyeliner and false eyelashes, has manicured fingernails, tailored clothing and what looks suspiciously like a professional hairdo. – All highly noticeable once one takes one’s eyes off of her main assets.” and “After Ajor has freed them, they are climbing a hill. If you look closely, you can see Ajor is wearing modern white panties.”
You can watch this on Tubi.