And so will yours-for decent entertainment,if you make it all the way through this tripe. Made by Hammer Studios, the once-legendary specialists in literate horror films, ''Prehistoric Women'' (aka ''Slave Girls'') features Michael Latimer as David Marchant, a Great White Hunter who, chasing a wounded Leopard, runs afoul of a group of hostile natives who sentence him to death for disturbing their Kingdom. But, as Fate, or the screenwriters would have it, he suddenly finds himself thrust back in time to yet another Kingdom where Brunette women have enslaved all the Blondes they can get their whips on. The reasons for this are too silly to go into, but one involves the worship of a White Rhino, which is also The God of another tribe of warriors called the ''Devils Of Darkness''. Anyway, the Brunettes are headed by the beautiful but cruel Queen Kari (Martine Beswick) who takes an immediate fancy to Marchant. Alas, he has fallen in love with Blonde slave Saria (Edina Ronay) who eventually convinces him to lead the female (and a few ancient male) slaves in a revolution. So goes the ''plot''. The film is beautifully photographed in color and CinemaScope on sets left over from Hammer's remake of ''One Million Years B.C''. The acting (especially by the incredibly sensuous Beswick)is not bad,and the women, both Blonde and Brunette are easy on the eyes. But the pacing is excruciatingly slow, the story dull, and the only moments of true entertainment come from a Command Performance by the Blondes who Dance nightly for the Queen's Dinner Show.Oh yes, and the appearance of the plastic White Rhino at the climax. The musical score sounds as if it was written for a 60's Bible Spectacle, and there is virtually no direction by Michael Carreras. This sat on the shelf for two years in it's Native England, before Hammer released it (shorn of at least 16 minutes) as a second feature, while in the not-so-lucky U.S, it showed up in 1967 supported by another Hammer production, the infinitely superior ''The Witches'' retitled ''The Devil's Own'' here. Both are available on very impressive dvds, but ''Prehistoric Women'' is best left to Pre-History.
Review of Prehistoric Women
