The Time Machine

Classic SCI-FI movie I remember watching as a kid. I wish it were easy to stream movies of this vintage and older instead of all the drama and violence crap available today.

I'm a big fan of the late H G Wells. My favorite science fiction novel by H G Wells and movie of his is The Time Machine. I've watched the movie dozens of times. I love great science fiction and this movie on DVD INMO is in the top 5 science fiction DVDs of all time! Look at all the 5 star reviews by other reviewers! Rod Taylor as the time traveler, Alan Young playing two roles as his best friend and his friends son,Sebastian Cabot and the hottie Yvette Mimieux as innocent and loving Weena in the Earth's far distant future are superb in their acting. The color and sound on the DVD are great.This movie won an award for its London nuclear destruction with molten lava scenes. George Pal who created the movie won seven Oscars and Special awards for his various features in other works. We see the time traveler at the very end of 1899 explaining to a group of friends the 4th dimension Time and how it can be used to move objects into the past, present and future. He sends a small model of the time machine into the future. His friends are not impressed as they think it could be a trick and see no commercial application for a time machine. The time traveler goes into the future with his beautiful made Time Machine. First he sees only ahead a few hours, then days and WW1. He stops and looks around. Then he goes into WW2, stops and looks around. Then he stops and sees London in 1966 being destroyed by nuclear war weapons and molten lava engulfing everything. Quickly he jumps into the time machine and just escapes being burned and buried alive by molten lava. He travels many, many centuries into the far future and finds and lives with the innocent nice Eloi race and saves his future sweetheart innocent Weena from drowning. The evil subhuman horrible looking cannibalistic Morlocks capture Weena and many of the Eloi to eat them. The time traveler must rescue them. I wont ruin the great super ending. This is classic QUALITY science fiction put together on a great playing DVD. Great color and sound. Lots of action and a great story plot. Buy this to add to your collection. INMO one of the best 5 science fiction novels and movie of all time! Rated 5 stars plus

Great old movie.Great actors.

An “Iconic Movie”! A class of its own. Extremely hard work went into this film. Yes, I do believe in time travel and quantum. This is my all time favorite movie. As we journey through life, that time opens doors, Doors sometimes open setting a path into motion, Things that at the right time will happen, happens for a reason. I saw a person sitting with his co-workers visiting a very ill co-worker. Year 1983. Fast forward to 1992. (The same person sitting in 1983) visiting his sick friend, is now sitting with his father who is ill. He remembered me, but I didn’t remember him at first, until he said you looked right at me at my friends bedside. I then remembered. Fast forward again, 1997 we married. I did pay tribute to that movie as I came up with the idea of The Time Machine for Christmas memories as each floor in the hospital decorated. My example was that all the memories we have, past and present will be with us, and taken into the future at the right time, place and year.

After all these years, "The Time Machine" (1960) remains a very entertaining movie. Of the five or six films produced by George Pal, "The Time Machine", which was also directed by him, along with "The War of the Worlds" (1953) are probably his finest films. Both films are loosely based on the novels of H.G. Wells and, for their time, boasted state of the art special effects, for which both films won an Oscar. Rod Taylor is the lead character, supposedly H.G. Wells himself, who claims to his friends to have invented a time machine, allowing him to travel back and forth in time. His brief discussion with his friends, attempting to explain the principles of time travel, similar to the Wells novel, makes it seem almost plausible until one thinks about it a little longer. Taylor, whose British accent slowly fades away as the picture goes on, plays his character earnestly and is surrounded by an able cast: Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, Yvette Mimieux, Doris LLoyd, very likable as his house maid, and, in particular, Alan Young, who delivers a perfect Scottish accent, as his devoted but practical-minded Scottish friend. Why not? Alan Young grew up in Edinburgh. The special effects for this film are basically simple but effective, using time-lapse photography to simulate the acceleration of events that one would supposedly witness if he were rapidly moving forward in time. His journey, after a few brief stops to observe the two World Wars and a nuclear attack pointedly set in the mid 1960s, ultimately takes him several hundred thousand years into the future in which he encounters a race of "beautiful people", the Eloi and a race of barbarous beings called the Morlocks who are (literally) living off the Eloi. At this point the screen play of the picture and the novel of H.G. Wells part company, the movie pretty much resorting to melodramatic action for its resolution. The video quality of the DVD is very good and the sound recording, as a pleasant surprise, is in genuine and high quality stereophonic sound although it was never presented that way in any theater in which I saw this film. The music is a rich orchestral score by Russ Garcia and adds a good deal to the effectiveness of the film. I thinks it's safe to say that this film version of the Wells novel, with all of its shortcomings, still betters the 2002 remake in spite of the technical superiority of the newer film. Alan Young makes a brief but welcome cameo appearance in the 2002 film which, unfortunately, fails to convey the atmosphere of H.G. Wells that the older film, at least in places, manages to accomplish,

GREAT STORY AND VERY GOOD MOVIE!!!!!

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Fantastic movie great extra features 👏

One of the early time travel Sci-Fi movies that still stands the test of time, pardon the pun. A CGI-free film, probably that is one reason why I find it appealing.

MAGNICO PRODUCTO,COMO ME GUSTO ESTA PELI DE PEQUEÑO

Film spettacolare e DVD funzionante. consegna nei tempi come sempre