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The Time Machine
The Time Machine, American science-fictionfilm, released in , that was based on H.G. Wells’s classic story that explores both the theoretical possibilities and the perils of time travel.
A Victorian-era scientist (played by Rod Taylor) invents a machine that transports him through time. He travels forward to flee the warlike world of He stops the machine in , in , and in , but he finds the world at war on all three occasions. He eventually travels to the year , and discovers a race of benign humans, the Eloi, menaced by hordes of ferocious man-beasts, the Morlocks, who prey on the Eloi at will.
The film was directed and produced by George Pal, who also made Wells’s The War of the Worlds (). The Time Machine received an Academy Award for special effects for its time-lapse photography depicting the world changing quickly as time passes by. The time machine itself is one of the cinema’s great props.
Production notes and credits
- Director and Producer: George Pal
- Running time: minutes
Cast
- Rod Taylor (H. George Wells)
- Alan Young (James Filby/David Filby)
- Whit Bissell (Walter Kemp)
Academy Award nomination (* denotes win)
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