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The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young.
The Time Machine: Directed by George Pal. With Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot. A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society.
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Mar 17, 2022 · The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young.
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The Time Machine, American science-fiction film, released in 1960, 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 1900. He stops the machine in 1917, in 1940, and in 1966, but he finds the world at war on all three occasions. He eventually travels to the year 802,701 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.
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•Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
•Director and Producer: George Pal
•Writer: David Duncan
•Music: Russell Garcia
•Rod Taylor (H. George Wells)
•Alan Young (James Filby/David Filby)
•Yvette Mimieux (Weena)
•Sebastian Cabot (Dr. Philip Hillyer)
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The Time Machine. Jump to. Summaries. A man's vision for a utopian society is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and dangerous society. On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. Wells - George to his friends - arrives late to his own dinner party.
Scientist H. George Wells (Rod Taylor) builds a time machine, and despite the warning from his friend David (Alan Young) against "tempting the laws of providence," decides to visit the...
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Time Machine, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Small Experimental Model London, December 31, 1899, after chat about space and time, George (Rod Taylor, as a fictionalized version of the author H.G. Wells) demonstrates his model for scientific friends (Alan Young, Sebastian Cabot, Whit Bissell, Tom Helmore), early in George Pal's The Time Machine, 1960.
