Quest for Fire (1981)

 

 

Director:  Jean-Jacques Annaud

Starring:  Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman, Nameer El Kadi

Country:  French-Canadian film

Oscar:  Make-up

 

Finally, a good movie about ancient man without the dinosaurs (extinct 60 million years before the origin of man).  A tribe loses its fire and does not have the knowledge to start their own, so they must send out a small group in search of fire from other tribes.  The anthropologist Desmond Morris managed the body languages and gestures and Anthony Burgess invented the ancient languages.  

 

 

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