

Danforth was a major participant in the special effects sequences, but left the film "about two-thirds of the way" (his words) through the work because the Directors Guild of America prohibited his contracted on-screen credit, co-direction with Carl Gottlieb. The film features stop motion animated dinosaurs constructed by Jim Danforth, including a Tyrannosaurus Rex which in one scene becomes intoxicated by a cannabis-type drug, animated by Randall W. The river and fishing lake scene was shot in the Mexican state of Durango, and some scenes were filmed at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. Filming was mostly done in the Sierra de Órganos National Park in the town of Sombrerete in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico.
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In the course of these adventures they discover sedative drugs and fire, invent cooking, music, and weapons, and learn how to walk fully upright. The group has ongoing encounters with hungry dinosaurs, and rescues Lar from a "nearby ice age", where they encounter an abominable snowman. After being banished along with his friend Lar ( Dennis Quaid), Atouk falls in with a band of assorted misfits, among them the comely Tala ( Shelley Long) and the elderly blind man Gog ( Jack Gilford). He lusts after the beautiful but shallow Lana ( Barbara Bach), who is the mate of Tonda ( John Matuszak), their tribe's physically imposing bullying leader and brutish instigator.

Caveman is a 1981 slapstick comedy film written and directed by Carl Gottlieb and starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long and Barbara Bach.Ītouk ( Ringo Starr) is a bullied and scrawny caveman living in "One Zillion BC – October 9th".
