The Time Machine

Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, et al.

H.G. Wells' Victorian traveler visits three world wars and the year 802701. Directed by George Pal.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 012569523128
• Release Date: August 2000
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Director: George Pal
• Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Hellmore, Whit Bissell, Doris Lloyd, Paul Frees, Bob Barran
• Runtime: 1 hour, 43 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: closed-captioned
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I want one of them there machines!

This is the story of George “H.G. Wells” (Rod Taylor), who is an inventor. He has invited his friends to dinner and is inexcusably late. Staggering in, all disheveled, he is asked what happened to him. Therefore, he relays the story. A week earlier, it was the turn of the century. He was showing his latest invention, “The Time Machine.” With this machine, he could go into the future or the past. Being an optimist about man's future, he chose the future. The adventure begins. -------------------------------------------------------- This is the definitive time machine movie. There have been others before and others after "Time After Time" (1979). There has been a time without machines, "Somewhere in Time"(1980). But just as with Cecil's "The Ten Commandments" (1956), is the version you remember? There are other remakes or versions of this story made later. The (1978) TV version did a fair job of portraying the book even if it looked like a TV movie; Priscilla Barnes played Weena. In an earlier make of the movie (1949), Mary Donn played Weena. Then they forgot how to make movies and went to today’s soundbite razzle-dazzle shallow version (2002), hopefully not the last attempt; looks like Weena is out too. Rod Taylor's time machine is the one that you remember. An interesting side note is that in the book "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells, Weena was not much worth messing around with and did not look like Yvette Mimieux. Later in the story, mankind breaks into two species. The interesting part is that in the book, the reason was social. In this movie, it is war and the A-bomb. In future movies, it is eugenics. Given today’s climate, it will probably be social again. Anyway, I want a fancy time machine and a Morlock suit. With a zipper up the back.