The Time Machine (1960) Part 10

Forget that silly remake in 2002... This is the original and best movie version of the story. 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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[dfjkslsdfjkl]

I don't think either version of the movie got the story right. The eloi are supposed to be aloof migits, not a remote caucasian society in sixties mini-skirts. And the book never said anything about the morlocks being mutated blue gorillas...lol

[TimeMachineMovie]

No movie taken from any book is made word for word..... It's interpreted by each director and crew. Also.... everyone reading he same book never sees the same story...

[greatscottbttfride]

i liked wenna

[lmollot]

man spreads his neurosis to natives

[TaurusType]

@norristerse Really? I alwasy wince when he says goodbye to his friend WIlby(?)

[pacnwcomre]

@dfjkslsdfjkl All good movies are inspired by a book or screenplay and there will always be certain poetic licenses that the movie will take from the literature....this movie was so well done, given the technology they had in 1960, to think that 40 years later a remake would be made with all of the special effects that were great, but somehow the remake did not have the heart and soul that this movie had..........you can bet that if H. G. Well saw the movie he'd congratulate George Pal..!!

[SpinDizzyMR]

I'm surprised she knew what an old person was, when he said there is a woman in his life, but she's 62 years old and all old and wrinkly.

If you've seen that other sci fi classic Sanctuary, all their citizens died young too, old age was a strange novelty to them.

[younggeorgy]

good movie,kind of a sad ending.

[norristerse]

it always makes me wince when he gets grabbed by the morlocks

[hotdave86000]

wow the clocks check out the time on them... cool

[hotdave86000]

science-fiction classic from 1960.

wow ?

[andyjay729]

The Morlocks put chemicals in the oxygen to make them blonde and stupid.

I'm blonde BTW. :)