# Another movie to identify--cavemen "evolve" into rich people then devolve **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-to-identify-cavemen-evolve-into-rich-people-then-devolve/422446 "2007-10-12T08:21:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-to-identify-cavemen-evolve-into-rich-people-then-devolve/422446/1 "2007-10-12T08:21:08Z")
Years ago, late at night, I saw a film on TV in Japan _part_ of which was in German, and part of which was in English. The film started out seeming like a documentary about caveman-like folks in the jungle. Then the cavemen found a mansion, and started playing various mansion-folk roles. Their grunting evolved into talking, and eventually they appeared to be well-mannered rich people at a civilized rich-people party. This part was all in English IIRC, and the German speaking “documentarian narrator” did not speak for quite a while. The people in the mansion got tangled up in some kind of soap-opera-esque plot. Then finally, they started devolving as emotions got more intense. At the end, they were back to being cavemen, running around the property and fighting each other. I believe the German Documentarian Narrator returned at thi point. What was this movie? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-to-identify-cavemen-evolve-into-rich-people-then-devolve/422446/2 "2007-10-12T08:45:55Z")
Die Pleistocene Hillbillies? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-to-identify-cavemen-evolve-into-rich-people-then-devolve/422446/3 "2007-10-12T15:20:15Z")
[Savages](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069226/). ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-to-identify-cavemen-evolve-into-rich-people-then-devolve/422446/4 "2007-10-12T16:08:49Z")
I saw part of this on late night TV in the 80’s. I thought it was just a drug-induced fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-to-identify-cavemen-evolve-into-rich-people-then-devolve/422446/5 "2007-10-12T16:14:58Z")
Wow, after that description I was not expecting to find ‘Director: James Ivory’ on imdb. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-movie-to-identify-cavemen-evolve-into-rich-people-then-devolve/422446/6 "2007-10-12T17:23:42Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] Wow, after that description I was not expecting to find ‘Director: James Ivory’ on imdb. [/QUOTE] And apparently, I now discover, Sam Waterston is in it! I may have to buy this thing. -FrL-