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When Women Had Tails

Original title: Quando le donne avevano la coda
  • 1970
  • R
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
3.8/10
736
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When Women Had Tails (1970)
ComedyFantasySci-Fi

Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live. One day they trap a strange animal who looks ve... Read allSeven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live. One day they trap a strange animal who looks very similar to them, only softer with longer hair.Seven orphan cavemen grow up on a little island all by themselves. After a fire burns all vegetation they set out to find a new place to live. One day they trap a strange animal who looks very similar to them, only softer with longer hair.

  • Director
    • Pasquale Festa Campanile
  • Writers
    • Lina Wertmüller
    • Pasquale Festa Campanile
    • Marcello Coscia
  • Stars
    • Giuliano Gemma
    • Senta Berger
    • Frank Wolff
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.8/10
    736
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Pasquale Festa Campanile
    • Writers
      • Lina Wertmüller
      • Pasquale Festa Campanile
      • Marcello Coscia
    • Stars
      • Giuliano Gemma
      • Senta Berger
      • Frank Wolff
    • 14User reviews
    • 12Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Giuliano Gemma
    Giuliano Gemma
    • Ulli
    Senta Berger
    Senta Berger
    • Filli
    Frank Wolff
    Frank Wolff
    • Grr
    Renzo Montagnani
    Renzo Montagnani
    • Maluc
    Lino Toffolo
    Lino Toffolo
    • Put
    Francesco Mulè
    • Uto
    • (as Francesco Mule')
    Aldo Giuffrè
    Aldo Giuffrè
    • Zog
    • (as Aldo Giuffre')
    Paola Borboni
    Paola Borboni
    • Leader of Cavewoman Tribe
    Lando Buzzanca
    Lando Buzzanca
    • Kao
    Gabriella Giorgelli
    Gabriella Giorgelli
    • L'esca
    • (uncredited)
    Gina Mascetti
    Gina Mascetti
    • La madre
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Pasquale Festa Campanile
    • Writers
      • Lina Wertmüller
      • Pasquale Festa Campanile
      • Marcello Coscia
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    Mindset-2

    Apparently not a figment of my imagination

    There were 150 women at the end of the movie? Honestly, I never made it that far. The product of a really boring graveyard shift at Jumbo Video, my shift partner grabbed this one off the rack because he wanted to watch something with jugs and thought it'd be weird enough for me to give it a try (he was right). I'm sure our copy had the title "The Time Before Women Had Lost Their Tails" (I remember thinking how that didn't make any sense as Filli doesn't have a tail). Painfully juvenile, the cast makes the Teletubbies look like the Marx Bros. In all these years, its never occurred to me that it was Italian. I remember that they were speaking gibberish, but I'm pretty sure it was Caveman gibberish and not a foreign language. Either way, there were no subtitles or dubbing, which didn't make it any easier. Just a lot of gibberish and over-exaggerated mime. Long, boring stretches of attempted situation comedy of the lobotomy-kind, the movie never even rises to its sexploitation ambitions, keeping Filli (Feely) to a bikini minimum (to they dismay of my shift partner who was so perplexed by the movie he watched it like a deer caught in headlights)and hammering its "Johnson" punchline home with such dead horse-brutality that they obviously thought it'd only get funnier with each replay.

    I've often heard film critics cry over losing 90 min of their lives to some dreadful movie they've had to watch. They have no idea.
    10prayer4eev

    great comedy

    well, dont expect too much from that movie and u will enjoy it. if u want to see some bits'o'tits - choose another movie. actually u will see some nudity only at the end. Senta Berger is hot and play very well. it's just comedy. 10 out of 10
    10lee_eisenberg

    proof of male stupidity

    Now that it was OK to show brainless erotica on screen, they were allowed to make a movie like "Quando le donne avevano la coda" (called "When Women Had Tails" in English). It portrays several witless cavemen finding an island inhabited by scantily clad babe Filli (Senta Berger). Personally, I can't understand why these dopes wanted to devour her, even if they thought that she was an animal; had I seen her, I immediately would have wanted to have sex with her! Anyway, she gets one of them interested in a certain kind of game. Before you know it, they both run off together, but the other men aren't satisfied and chase them.

    I should identify that most of the movie consists of scenes in which people club each other askew, asunder, and in other ways. It seems like the sort of movie filmed by a bunch of people getting together for the weekend (possibly for an orgy). But overall, I liked it, if only for the guilty pleasure that it arouses. This is certainly one that you watch to laugh at, nothing serious here. Really fun.
    1grybop

    Absolute garbage

    Is it possible for a movie to get any worse than this? There's a bunch of apes wandering about, mumbling b******, acting supposedly silly and we are supposed to laugh? There is no plot here to keep you going in the first place. Even when the women finally show up, there is no sign of improvement; the most expected things happen and by the time the film is over, you might be far asleep. Beware: this is not a trashy cult movie, this is trash -period! I can't believe there's even a sequel to this!

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    1BaronBl00d

    Three Stooges Italian-Style

    Way back at the dawn of human civilization cavemen sat around and made lame jokes, hit each other over the heads with what ever they could grab, and women were never seen and apparently at one time had tails. These cavemen lived in a geographically diverse region with a cockatoo, a camel, a monkey - but no women. This film tells of the "hilarious" misadventures of seven(or so) cavemen - having burned their land with the new discovery of fire - moving on by water to a new land where they find this woman with the extra appendage. Along the way we get such "great" moments of comedy like a fat cavemen swallowing a frog that keeps croaking in his stomach. A monkey throwing rocks at their heads. A man swallowing a mouse to get the frog in his stomach. The obligatory "gay" caveman. The list could go on and on. This movie is the very definition of cinematic dreck. I was bored from the onset and it only got worse as the cavemen bobbled around hitting each other, making poor jokes such as puns on the word perch, hitting each other, and mauling poor Seta Berger who looks like she lost a bet to a producer to appear in this nonsense. She is indeed one of two bright spots in this film. She isn't much of an actress so you have to guess why she is an ass-et? The other "bright" spot is the music. As soon as I heard the score, I said to myself that it sounded very familiar. I had never heard the actual score but the music was unmistakably that of Ennio Morricone. It's a nice score and the best thing in an otherwise crude, boring, lewd, unimaginative, and ridiculous film essentially about a group of Moes finding a woman for the first time and, first wanting to eat her like some animal, being taught what she could do. Awwwwh! Sorry, I'm stifling a yawn as I relive the plot! The end of the film has some 100 or so mostly naked women on screen with all the erotic feel of pulling a scab off your knee. This movie was painful to sit through and offers nothing of any real merit whatsoever. The fact that it spawned a sequel doesn't surprise me as it offers that one thing which will prick viewer interest - tail.

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    Will Ferrell in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
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    • Trivia
      Italian censorship visa # 56938 delivered on 6-10-1970.
    • Connections
      Featured in 42nd Street Forever, Volume 2: The Deuce (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Quando Le Donne Avevano La Coda
      Written by Ennio Morricone

      Directed by Bruno Nicolai

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    • Release date
      • October 15, 1970 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Language
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Kad su zene imale repove
    • Production company
      • Clesi Cinematografica
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 45m(105 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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