Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humamity has divided into two hostile species.

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G, 103 min.

Directed by: George Pal

Release Date: August 17, 1960

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DVD Release Date: October 3, 2000

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  • January 5, 2009
    Sci-Fi classic!
  • November 28, 2008

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    ...( read more)Filby: Which three books would you have taken?

    This is my ultimate classic! Watched this countless times when i was a boy! The air headed Eloi and there passive nature, and the creepy Morlocks.
    I love the way when he uses the time machine everything around grows and dies, changes, warps and the mannequin in the window with her changing fashions, so clever.

    Incredible music score and direction.

    Rod Taylor is amazingly charismatic and dashing as the main protoganist.

    The lady (Yvette Mimeux) is so stunning. Original is so damn perfect and beautifully made its still good even today.

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    Would recommend to any intellectual guys/ladies out there. Which three books would you take? At the time when this came out all the Religious people thought the bible would be one, don't be ridiculous! Laughable! That would have dire consequences, if it was me i know what id take.

    It would be a book that portrays the good of mankind and its morals and empathy, philosophy and Plato. Show emotion for all its good sides and glory, always do the best thing.

    The Eloi remind me of little children innocent and needing guidance. The young are so receptive and ideas flow through like water into the sea from a flowing river ending its journey.

    I think H.G wells hit the nail on the head with the Morlocks and a big stab at the industrial revolution and what mankind could become if we went the wrong way forward. An emotionless hungry race with ugly machinery void of morals(like a group of cannibals/animals), still i love how the two races are the same but one has been trapped underground while the other living on the surface, two different paths altering them entirely.

    The dusty books too totally disregarded by the Eloi the climactic, recorded singing rings telling the sad tale.

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    Worth watching time and time again! This film had no need of a remake nothing could surpass this!. Thought id put the plot in too for a secondary look at this brilliant adaptation :

    Plot: After 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.

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  • October 30, 2008
    as much an anti-war film as it is a time traveling sci-fi film, time machine does a great job delving into important philosophical positions amidst a somewhat cheesy but interesting plot. while most films about the distant future focus on advancement, this story see's the future...( read more) as a place of regression due to mankinds constant need to fight each other. the one problem developed through the film involving the time travel was seemingly solved at the end, and the other problem with the language devolving of the morlocks is insignificant enough to pass over. this film drew me to thoughts of where the world is going, its biggest flaw being that it is set in a world with an atheistic mindset that assumes that man is the point or is ultimately in control, but it is still an interesting film to think through.
  • June 17, 2008
    Not particularly deep, it still entertains. Although the first half is better than the second.
  • May 29, 2008
    i think this was definitely on the right track with a strong h.g. wells' story behind it capturing the imagination but it dragged on a little too long without enough interesting stuff going on in it. the first half hour was the best where you were wondering what could come of thi...( read more)s all? where would he travel to? but when he gets to his final destination it's a bit of a let down. is there a re-make of this? it needs to be re-made... and made better
  • November 7, 2009
    The second best film in the 60s. This film is so unique and beautiful.
  • November 6, 2009
    My dad is more of fan than I am, but it is okay for an older movie
  • October 25, 2009
    Never been interested in reading Wells's novels mainly because the movies which I saw, and were adapted after his works, being generous here, were average.
    Except this one, I saw another version (2002) that was even worse.
    Some of the things that bugged me:
    -this so called "time ...( read more)machine" looked like a victorian piece of furniture with a umbrella attached to it.
    -a few good minutes, after our hero begins to travel, he's seems very interested in the changes in women fashion, Is he by chance John Galliano in disguise, come on, you have a time machine , you could see anyone from history, experience any period of the past, and meet anyone, and he glances at women clothes. please!
    -the nuclear scene: how on earth did he get unharmed by that blast, they never saw footage from Hiroshima or Nagasaki?At least Indiana Jones had a fridge, where is his fridge, then?
    - a curious thing- somewhere in the year 80.000 and some years more, the people look (hair, cloths) like those when the movie was made.
    -also, the same people, spoke english. Sure, sure... A little knowledge and logic will do some good. I'm not even bother on this.
    -the main character has this great invention on his hands, but he doesn't use it in order to do some good, but he criticises the others for beeing nonactives, hypocrisy, much?
    -his experiences doesn't change the man in no way whatsoever.
    I rather see "The Blackadder goes forth" once again, at least that was funny.
  • September 20, 2009
    Fantastic classic H. G. Wells' sci-fi tale. Awesome effects as well.

    83/100
  • September 11, 2009
    Here today, gone tomorrow. To the amazement and disbelief of his colleagues and other experts, Victorian Englishman George has perfected a machine that would let him travel and live into the times other than his own. Everyone is skeptical, but he would return with a very fantasti...( read more)c story and actual proof of his travels. The young scientist travels forward into the far future time of the year 802,701 - where he discovers that humanity has divided into two hostile species, the Eloi and the Morlocks, hundreds of thousands of years following the fall of civilization.

    Directed by George Pal, The Time Machine features excellent acting performances from the following cast:
    1.) Rod Taylor (George)
    2.) Alan Young (David Filby/James Filby)
    3.) Yvette Mimieux (Weena)
    4.) Sebastian Cabot (Dr. Philip Hillyer)
    5.) Tom Helmore (Anthony Bridewell)

    Since I was 11 years old I've been reading the original H.G. Wells novel long before I recently watched this movie adaptation. As a favorite topic of science fiction, time travel interested me for its movement of time and space, and I knew it would be great if I ever traveled into the future so that I could reveal what mankind and the world would look like as it progresses. Although raised on modern-day films I find the special effects (SFX) here great as they looked real to me, and I can say that the Morlocks are like people wearing the most ugly-looking party costumes I've ever seen. Having watched The Time Machine I'm glad that its storyline mostly followed the novel well, and I liked it as an all-time, enjoyable sci-fi classic.

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