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starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore directed by: George Pal  List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 You Save: $11.99 (60%)as of 09/02/2010 18:06 EDT Availability: Temporarily out of stock. Order now and we'll deliver when available. We'll e-mail you with an estimated delivery date as soon as we have more information. Your credit card will not be charged until we ship the item.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790747323 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790747324 Item Dimensions: Label: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Languages: Manufacturer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) MPN: 012569523128 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 03, 2000 Running Time: 103 minutes Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Theatrical Release Date: August 17, 1960 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A time travel inventor travels to the future where the passive Eloi are in danger of becoming prey to subterranean mutants called Morlocks. Amazon.com: 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. 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Time Machine Still TickingAfter all these years, "The Time Machine" (1960) remains a very entertaining movie. Of the five or six films produced by George Pal, "The Time Machine", which was also directed by him, along with "The War of the Worlds" (1953) are probably his finest films. Both films are loosely based on the novels of H.G. Wells and, for their time, boasted state of the art special effects, for which both films won an Oscar. Rod Taylor is the lead character, supposedly H.G. Wells himself, who claims to his friends to have invented a time machine, allowing him to travel back and forth in time. His brief discussion with his friends, attempting to explain the principles of time travel, similar to the Wells novel, makes it seem almost plausible until one thinks about it a little longer. Taylor, whose British accent slowly fades away as the picture goes on, plays his character earnestly and is surrounded by an able cast: Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, Yvette Mimieux, Doris LLoyd, very likable as his house maid, and, in particular, Alan Young, who delivers a perfect Scottish accent, as his devoted but practical-minded Scottish friend. Why not? Alan Young grew up in Edinburgh. The special effects for this film are basically simple but effective, using time-lapse photography to simulate the acceleration of events that one would supposedly witness if he were rapidly moving forward in time. His journey, after a few brief stops to observe the two World Wars and a nuclear attack pointedly set in the mid 1960s, ultimately takes him several hundred thousand years into the future in which he encounters a race of "beautiful people", the Eloi and a race of barbarous beings called the Morlocks who are (literally) living off the Eloi. At this point the screen play of the picture and the novel of H.G. Wells part company, the movie pretty much resorting to melodramatic action for its resolution. The video quality of the DVD is very good and the sound recording, as a pleasant surprise, is in genuine and high quality stereophonic sound although it was never presented that way in any theater in which I saw this film. The music is a rich orchestral score by Russ Garcia and adds a good deal to effectiveness of the film. I thinks it's safe to say that this film version of the Wells novel, with all of its shortcomings, still betters the 2002 remake in spite of the technical superiority of the newer film. Alan Young makes a brief but welcome cameo appearance in the 2002 film which, unfortunately, fails to convey the atmosphere of H.G. Wells that the older film, at least in places, manages to accomplish, Rating:  - A blast from the past, for the future!I remember seeing and being fascinated by this movie as a youngster and while the special effects are obviously dated, it's still a favorite. Make sure you check out the Special Features and see the segment hosted by a much older and stouter Rod Taylor, telling how the Time Machine itself was made, how it survived the years in spite of finally being found in a thrift shop (!), was restored and was used in the 'Back to the Future' movies, among other video clips. His touching tribute to George Pal, the movie's producer, is very moving. No, this doesn't follow the original storyline entirely but it's a wonderful adventure nonetheless. Rating: - Very happy with the print and soundThis film I have seen many times and I am so glad I have this now for the rest of my life. I also enjoy the extras on this disc. The print looks great but I do not have a big screen led or lcd so I dont know what it looks like on that. Rating: - The Time MachineAnother trip back in time (sorry about that) for a fine movie. There's someting in all of us that we would love to escape and go back to simpler times. Back To The Future was also a trip to a more innocent era that I miss. What ever happened to Mayberry? Rating: - review of the time machineTis is a classic story of the invention of a time machine which will take the owner into the distant future and back again to the present, which was 1900 in the story. 
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