The Time Machine
by George Pal
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Actor: Alan Young, Rod Taylor, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Yvette MimieuxDirector: George Pal
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Paul Vogel
Producer: George Pal
Editor: George Tomasini
Writer: David Duncan
Writer: H.G. Wells
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-10-03
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
DVD Reviews of The Time Machine
DVD Review: The Time Machine DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVD is excellent. DVD was received in excellent condition and before expected delivery date.DVD Review: The Time Machine (1960)-Grand old movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Time Machine (1960)was an excellent five star movie produced by George Pal starring Rod Taylor. This old movie has held up pretty well with the passage of much time. I first saw it at the Loews Paradise in the Bronx back in 1960. Many of my old friends from the neighborhood took the trek up to Fordham Road to see this movie with me and were not dissapointed with this great film. Although the special effects are a little dated they are nevertheless still effective. The movie owes much of its success to the original Wells story.DVD Review: A Thought-Provoking Film That Looks Better Than Ever On DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Boy, did a nice DVD transfer like this one not only make me appreciate the visuals in here more but made the story seem better, too, for some reason. I only acquired the DVD as a memento, so to speak. I had to have at least one movie which had the woman I had a crush on back in the early '60s: Yvettte Mimieux. She still looks great, too.
Since time travel stories also fascinate me, my favorite part of the film is when "George" (Rod Taylor) is actually in his time machine and experiments with it, slowing it down here and then and then stopping it a couple of times to observe World War I and then WWII. Then, he stops in 1966 when supposedly there was a nuclear attack. (Apparently, scare-mongers back in '60 thought that was a short-term likelihood.)
Anyway, when "George" (H.G. Wells, the author of this story) finally stops, in the year 200,000-something, the story loses some of its momentum. However, it's a fairly interesting study of a group of ultra-passive people being dominated by others who live underground and then literally eat the good people. Taylor is astounded that mankind has not progressed as he had figured but seemed to have regressed.
The message I got on this last look is that man is still man, meaning sinful and capable of anything bad as well as good, and to put one's faith totally in man is a mistake. It's only going to lead to disappointments as "George" found out on each of his stops. (Notice he never stopped during a peaceful, progressive period.) Yet, "George" is still an optimist and wants to be one to help initiate change for the better. There's always hope for a better world and people like George, with his idealism put to action, can make a difference.
Overall, an entertaining and thought-provoking film.
DVD Review: Travel in Time with HG Wells
Summary: 5 Stars
Several 3rd grade classes in my school viewed this movie (rated G)after reading a version of the book. We'd read it chapter by chapter and reviewed with EOG-style questions. Wow-talk about a page-turner! The children could not wait to read the next chapter just as soon as we finished the last. Watching the movie was a fun way to see the images we'd created in our minds come to life. This was the original version (I think the best) and because it is rated G, I felt very comfortable showing it to my students.DVD Review: An unexpected vision of the future
Summary: 5 Stars
The chronological setting of the movie is New Year's Eve 1899. George Wells (named in honor or the author of the original book) is just hours from seeing another century. But he is not satisfied with that, nor does he have to be. He wants to go many centuries into the future.
The H.G. Wells book this movie is based on was written in 1895 close to when this movie is set. It was also the first story of time travel by mechanical means. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" written by Mark Twain six years beforehand was about time travel via a bump on the head. In fact it was this book that coined the phrase "time machine."
The movie closely follows the book except that it takes advantage of knowledge of 20th Century history not available to writers in the 1890's. When traveling into the future George stops during the two World Wars and the year 1966 which was a future year when this movie was made. Then he narrowly escapes a nuclear blast. This encases him and his machine in rock forcing him to continue traveling into the future until the rock was worn away over time. He stops in the year 802,701.
George expects to see new inventions and progress. He is shown some advanced technology but not much. What he first sees is a lush garden and people, all blond and young, living in leisure. It appears that mankind has found a way back to the Garden of Eden. But something is just not right. For starters they do nothing when one of them is drowning in the river. The time traveler rescues the woman whose name is Weena and asks about her people's "rather curious attitude."
He finds out more about these people. They are called the Eloi. There are people underground called the Morlock. But they do not look anything like the Eloi. These Morlocks are blue skinned, big eyed, monstrous looking people. Over time the human race has divided into two species. The Eloi have everything provided to them by the Morlocks but they pay a price for it. They all must eventually go underground to be eaten by the Morlocks. They respond to a siren with the exact same sound that civil defense sirens have been sounding since the beginning of the 20th Century. The time traveler had heard this sound during his stop in a World War II air raid and in the 1966 nuclear holocaust as people were being warned to seek shelter. Apparently people had been so conditioned to respond to that sound by going underground that the Eloi were doing so mindlessly.
H.G. Wells was concerned about the working class increasingly working underground. In this story, this perceived trend of his has progressed to an extreme. There is a lot more to this story than someone going into the future and seeing new gadgets. On top of being a fun movie, it is rich in social commentary. The movie gives one the experience of traveling with the main character.
Description of The Time Machine
About the inventor of a time-tracel device that whisks him through a war-ravaged 20th century and into a far-off era where humans are enslaved by evil subterranean mutants. Special features: dual-layer widescreen subtitles in english and french original theatrical trailer and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/01/2006 Starring: Rod Taylor Alan Young Run time: 103 minutes Rating: GAfter scoring popular hits with When Worlds Collide and The War of the Worlds, special-effects pioneer George Pal returned to the visionary fiction of H.G. Wells to produce and direct this science-fiction classic from 1960. Wells's imaginative tale of time travel was published in 1895 and the movie is set in approximately the same period with Rod Taylor as a scientist whose magnificent time machine allows him to leap backward and forward in the annals of history. His adventures take him far into the future, where a meek and ineffectual race known as the Eloi have been forced to hide from the brutally monstrous Morlocks. As Taylor tests his daring invention, Oscar-winning special effects show us what the scientist sees: a cavalcade of sights and sounds as he races through time at varying speeds, from lava flows of ancient earth to the rise and fall of a towering future metropolis.
The movie's charm lies in its Victorian setting and the awe and wonder that carries over from Wells's classic story. The pioneering spirit of the movie is still enthralling, but it gets a bit silly when Taylor turns into a stock hero, rescuing a beautiful blonde Eloi (Yvette Mimieux) and battling with the chubby green Morlocks whose light-bulb eyes blink out when they die. Although it's quaint when compared to the special-effects marvels of the digital age, the movie's still highly entertaining and filled with a timeless sense of wonder. --Jeff Shannon
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