Darwin and Cinema

Here's something else you can blame on Charles Darwin: Raquel Welsh wearing a ragged animal-skin bikini and sporting a bouffant hairstyle, poised to take on the dinosaurs in Don Chaffey's One Million Years B.C. (1966). Not even special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen could turn this tosh into interesting cinema. But get that title, which would have been virtual blasphemy before Darwin published his On The Origin of Species (1859). According to the religious establishment, the world was created some 2000 to 3000 BC! As I wrote in yesterday's post, Darwin and Art, "Darwin's influence on art was profound".