If you've seen even a few CFF films from this era then you should be able to write much of the rest yourself, and even if you haven't then I'd still wager you could make a fairly accurate guess at how things subsequently unfold. But this matters little given a young target audience that would have lapped this up, and coming to the film with a decades of adulthood under my belt, I still enjoyed the hell out of it. Yes, there's a degree of nostalgia at play here, as much for these films as my own childhood years of improvised outdoor amusement, but Skid Kids is very smartly directed by Chaffey and handsomely photographed in crisp monochrome by wonderfully named cinematographer, S.D. Onions. A couple of brief studio scenes aside, the film was shot on actual southeast London locations with what looks like half the population of the area recruited as extras. Of the professional actors, my favourite has to be Vi Kaley, who plays an elderly women who pushes her way to the font of a gathered crowd when Spike and Sam stop to sell their stolen goods, then stares at them with a google-eyed expression that suggests she thinks they've both lost their minds. British movie stalwart A.E. Matthews even makes a guest appearance as a taxi passenger who loses his hat.

With nothing you could classify as dialogue in the film, none of the characters are identified by name, and are all identified by their roles or their visual characteristics in the closing credit roll – The Father, The Dumb Girl, The "Fair" Boy, The "Dark" Boy, and so on. The names cited in the review are the ones given to these characters in the official synopsis, and have been used here to avoid literary clutter. I definitely liked the having no proper English dialogue aspect of the movie, as it added a very believable and realistic layer to the movie.Creatures the World Forgot is, in fact, more in the caveman subgenre of films, which also includes The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) and The Quest for Fire (1981), rather than in the normal prehistoric sort of movie subgenre. It’s also on the violent side, not stinting on injury detail and bloodshed, which may appeal to more traditional horror movie fans. It’s certainly worth a watch as it holds the attention in a fairly unique way, despite not having any understandable dialogue. Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Creatures the World Forgot arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Indicator/Powerhouse Films. Image Galleries – 107 promotional stills; 71 behind the scenes; some of the glamour shots are quite revealing! Their home destroyed by a volcanic eruption, a tribe of dark-haired cave-people cross the land looking for somewhere safe to put down roots. Along the way, they meet a tribe of friendly blonde cave-people, who are happy to share their women. Not one to say 'No' to a hot blonde, Mak (Brian O'Shaughnessy), chief of the dark-haired people, sires two boys: blonde Toomak and dark-haired Rool. On the same day, another baby is born: a dumb girl who is almost sacrificed, but who is saved by the tribe's shamen (Rosalie Crutchley). Toomak and Rool grow up as rivals vying for their father's attention. When Mak is killed by a yak (or some such beast), it is the blonde son who is chosen as his successor, leaving the bitter Rool to try and seize leadership...

Radio Spot - presented here is vintage radio spot for Creatures the World Forgot. In English, not subtitled. (1 min). As the poster on the right shows, Hammer and their American distributors were fairly shameless in cashing in on the success of Million. Indeed, an open casting call was announced for the lead role, though this may have been no more than a publicity stunt. The part went to the Norwegian Ege, who like Victoria Vetri before her had been a glamour model, appearing in the May 1967 edition of Penthouse. She was also one of Blofeld’s girls in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, alongside other Hammer ladies Jennie Hanley, Anoushka Hempel and Joanna Lumley. The same year as this, Ege appeared in Up Pompeii, a comedy starring Frankie Howerd which was one of the biggest hits of 1971 at the British box-office. Creatures? Not so much.Creatures the World Forgot" was a nice surprise of a movie, and it is a movie that is actually well-worth watching. Skid Kids (1953). The film can be seen with an audio commentary by critic Vic Pratt. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles. (49 min). Scenes of hunting play a little uneasily but add, presumably, something of a realistic element, but a scene involving two half-naked women wrestling says more about the misogyny of the era than the film’s relatively poor script. It’s there for titillation only, and certainly doesn’t pass muster in terms of any expected “Hammer Glamour”. Some of the film’s weaker elements might be more forgivable if a huge climax supplied a few genuine thrills, but that merely involves increased violence, Julie Ege wrangling with a snake, and even more monosyllabic noise. Overall, this is a film that wavers between tense, strange and oddly unsettling. It’s rarely fun, and never truly supplies anything that an audience of adventure lovers would expect. Tony Bonner in ‘Creatures the World Forgot’ (1971) Jonathan Rigby: Signs of Change - in this new program, critic Jonathan Rigby discusses Hammer Films' production of Creatures the World Forgot and the film's unique qualities. In English, not subtitled. (25 min). Hammer’s Women: Julie Ege (2022, 7 mins): profile of the Norwegian model and actor by academic Rachel Knightley