- Country: USA
- Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
- Release: 1953-06-19
- Director: Ewald André Dupont
- Writers: Aubrey Wisberg , Jack Pollexfen
- Language: English | American Sign
- Stars: Robert Shayne , Joyce Terry , Richard Crane , Doris Merrick , Beverly Garland , Robert Long , Tandra Quinn , Lee Morgan , Eric Colmar , Dick Rich
- Runtime: 78 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: L'Homme de Néanderthal (France, French Republic) , Shakhse vahshatnak (Iran) , The Neanderthal Man (United Kingdom) , O Homem Fera (Brazil) , Dr. Jenkins unheimliche Nächte , The Neanderthal Man , The Neanderthal Man (United States of America) , El hombre de las cavernas (Spain)
- Plot: Wheeler, a tourist-hunter in the California High Sierras, is not believed by the patrons of Webb's Cafe when he claims to have run across a live tiger with tusks. Among the scoffers is game-warden Oakes - until he is driving home later that night and the critter hops on the hood of his car. Oakes convinces a skeptical Dr. Harkness, state university zoologist, to come to the small town to investigate. At Webb's, Harkness meets Ruth, fiancée of Prof. Groves who maintains his home and lab outside the town, and thru her meets Groves' daughter, Jan. Groves himself is down in the city, angrily trying to convince the Naturalists' Society of the truth of his theory that the size of skull and brain equate with intelligence, and therefore Neanderthal man was equal, if not superior, to Homo sapiens. He is rejected, and by the time he returns home, seems completely unhinged, rejecting his fiancée and secluding himself in his lab. There, he has developed a serum with which he is experimenting. After Harkness and Oakes kill the tiger - indeed, a sabre-toothed tiger, which vanishes when they go to Groves' for help retrieving the body - they begin hearing of a grotesque humanoid in torn clothing, which has killed a couple of local men and assaulted Nola, Webb's waitress; and join the Sheriff in attempting to solve this new mystery, which is clearly connected to Groves' experiments.
- IMDB:tt0046121
The Neanderthal Man Cast · · · ALL
Ewald André Dupont
Director
Robert Shayne
Prof. Clifford Groves
Richard Crane
Dr. Ross Harkness
Joyce Terry
Jan Groves
Doris Merrick
Ruth Marshall
Robert Long
Game Warden George Oakes
Tandra Quinn
Celia
Beverly Garland
Nola Mason, bar waitress
Dick Rich
Sheriff Andy Andrews
Lee Morgan
Charlie Webb, bar owner
Frank Gerstle
Mr. Wheeler, hunter
Robert Easton
Danny, a townsman
Eric Colmar
Buck Hastings, a townsman
Robert Bray
Jim Newcomb, a townsman
Anthony Jochim
Skeptical Naturalist
Marshall Bradford
Naturalists' Conference Chairman
William Fawcett
Dr. Fairchild
Tom Monroe
Thickset Townsman at Webb's Cafe
Ann Staunton
State Trooper Dispatcher