Luggage of the Gods!
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| Luggage of the Gods! | |
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| Directed by | David Kendall |
| Starring | Mark Stolzenberg, Gabriel Barre, Gwen Ellison, Martin Haber |
| Distributed by | Academy Home (1983) (VHS) |
| Release date(s) | 1983 |
| IMDb profile | |
In the Luggage of the Gods! feature cavemen living in a mountainous region of Latin America are completely disconnected from the modern world. They speak a simple constructed language, similar to that used in the 1981 movie Caveman. They worship and greatly fear airliners that regularly pass overhead. Tradition in the tribe dictated that they avert their eyes whenever a plane flies overhead. One day, an airliner's cargo malfunctions, causing it to jettison a good deal of luggage. Two young male cavemen break the taboo against looking at the planes, and observe the falling luggage. When they leave the tribe, they find clothing, cassettes, and counterfeit paintings which wreak havoc on the power structure and economy of the tribe. Events get even more out of hand when the counterfeiters come looking for the paintings.
Writer and director David Kendall had an extremely tight budget. According to the New York Times, the film was shot "entirely on locations in New York, at city parks and near Bear Mountain". <ref>New York Times Review, Published: June 19, 1987 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFDB1F3AF93AA25755C0A961948260</ref>
Similar themes were explored in The Gods Must Be Crazy, where an isolated African tribe was wrecked by a Coke bottle thrown from a plane.
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