Captain Caveman!

The lovely image you see above is from the movie in which Ringo finally had a Starr-ing role in: Caveman.

As far as movies go, it's a very peculiar one. It doesn't have dialogue (at least, that you can understand because, this being a "pre-historic movie", characters mumble and grumble and grunt the whole way through), it's got stop-motion animation sequences when dinosaurs and other primitive fauna are involved and it was the start of a long and fruitful marriage of its main Starr and his second wife, Barbara Bach (see above picture as well).

I have to say I'm a sucker for this sort of movie, being a big fan of Jean-Jacques Annaud's La Guerre du Feu and the more recent french outing, RRRrrrr!! (if you haven't seen it, let's just say that it's a direct descendent of Caveman, but with very rude lines of dialogue that you can't stop laughing at). To say that I'm eager to check out Homo Erectus, a recent american venture into pre-historic humour, is putting it mildly.

Anyway, needless to say that Ringo plays the underdog that comes out winning in the end and that plenty of wacky action sequences and blank star(r)ing are involved. However, the movie works in its own rugged way and it's one of the most widely recognized and distributed of his entire erratic filmic career. Do check it out if you can.