The Time Machine (1960) - 🤯📼First Time Film Club📼🤯 - First Time Watching/Movie Reaction & Review

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[@Rickhorse1]

One point. Comparing this to the plethora of time travel movies which came after is VERY unfair. The whole concept was mind boggling back then.... remember that the novel was written in 1895!!

[@44excalibur]

One of the best H.G. Wells adaptations, along with 1953's The War of the Worlds and 1933's The Invisible Man. The Morlocks were terrifying.

[@richardb6260]

The just watched The Invisible Man.

[@44excalibur]

@@richardb6260 I know they did.

[@RoSaWa386-33]

TIME MACHINE and INVISIBLE MAN get my votes for excellence; WAR OF THE WORLDS has had several iterations, and while some are more like the book, the less-like-book can be just as excellent... unless they have shrill little girls and Tom Cruise as the constantly misunderstood workaholic absentee semi-dad. And underground pods that emerge magically after one certain lightning storm. That was all new... and I can't muster any appreciation for it that change. I much prefer meteors with screw-tops.

[@richardb6260]

@@RoSaWa386-33 despite the changes, I thought the Spielberg film was closer to the book than George Pal's version. At least it has a ferry sequence, though I would have preferred some version of Thunderchild. It also has the red weed which is missing from Pal's version. I also like that we see the invasion from the POV of one man, also like the book. Not to mention, it has tripods. Unfortunately, the most faithful version, also released in 2005, is absolutely terrible. It has the correct setting and stays truer to the novel, but the acting, directing and especially the special effects are not good at all. I was amazed it supposedly cost $25 million. I would have guessed below $1 million.

[@44excalibur]

@@RoSaWa386-33 The Tom Cruise version was terrible. Spielberg should be ashamed of himself.

[@rcrawford42]

The actor who played good friend David Filby was Alan Young -- who you may know as Wilbur from "Mr. Ed". He was also the voice of Scrooge McDuck until his death in 2016 at age 97.

[@zimjun7]

Yup! Alan Young..."Mr. Ed.' Glad he lived a long life. Hope it was with lots of love.

[@mikerhodes8454]

My dad saw this when he was a kid and said the morlocks scared the hell out of him. When he'd hear something outside the house, his brothers told him it was the morlocks coming to get him.

[@Kantami]

My third favourite classic Sci-Fi movie of all time(no.1 being Forbidden Planet & no.2 being War Of The Worlds). The use of Stop Motion in this film for the time travel scenes is awesome, and a perfect way to do it considering thenlimitations of the time period the movie was made.

[@matthewdunham1689]

My same top 3.

[@timothyjordan86]

I have fond memories of watching this with my dad as a kid... I haven't thought about that in years. So, thank you both for taking me time traveling back to those times, here, today!

[@michaelmorrow9048]

TIME AFTER TIME is a mandatory follow up to this. And you get the added bonus of MALCOLM MACDOWELL and David Warner and Mary Steenburgen It's HG Wells vs Jack the Ripper

[@themoviedealers]

Steenburgen the premiere time travel actress, also in the Back To The Future trilogy.

[@garysmith3037]

I had the same thought. Great movie.

[@donkeyslayer9879]

Time after Time sucked.

[@44excalibur]

The Time Machine producer George Pal was also the producer of the 1953 version of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Australian Actor Rod Taylor also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

[@brandonflorida1092]

My sincere thanks for doing this great classic overlooked by KZbin reactors!!!

[@oriole21bird]

If you guys haven't seen 1963's "Jason and the Argonauts", I really think you would enjoy it. The stop motion effects and miniature work in that film are top notch for the time and overall it's just a really enjoyable mythological adventure.

[@davidanderson1639]

In 2002 I had the honour of meeting Ray Harryhausen. I was graduating from my degree in film design & Harryhausen was there to receive an honorary doctorate. After the ceremony, I was able to speak with him & told him how much his work had been an influence on me. Meeting Ray was something I’ll never forget; as is the conversation I had with Sir Christopher Lee in 2006.

[@oriole21bird]

@@davidanderson1639 That's awesome! Thanks for sharing that.

[@JayM409]

The Skeleton fight is amazing.

[@davidanderson1639]

@@JayM409 to this day, the skeleton fight in Jason & The Argonauts is an absolute masterpiece of stop motion animation.

[@dawn4726]

Fantastic film. Temple scenes shot in pastrum, Italy. Went there, feel like you are in the film

[@CarolinaCharles777]

Awesome! Not many people react to this one! TIME AFTER TIME would be a good companion piece to this. Just sayin'!! 😁

[@pathatfield2543]

Just agreeing.Times 100

[@deborahcornell171]

@CarolinaCharles777 Truly excellent suggestion!💙💫

[@raymacdonaldcreations505]

Yup, love that movie! I hope they do a reaction to that movie as well! Pomfrets anybody? ;)

[@nellgwenn]

I was going to suggest that one.

[@brettv5967]

Yes! Came here to say exactly this. Time After Time is really fun and the cast is fantastic.

[@gregzaffuto4507]

The actor, Alan Young, who played Filby was also the main "human" character on the TV comedy series "Mr. Ed". It was about a talking horse and only talked to his owner, Wilbur, played by Alan Young. The series was on for a few years and was a popular sit-com mostly comprised of situations Mr Ed got himself into where Wilbur had to hide Mr Ed's talent from the public.

[@BigJwlz]

He also voiced Scrooge McDuck on _Disney's Ducktales_ (1987).

[@markwilliams6394]

Sebastien Cabot is Mr.French from the TV show Family Affair and Whit Bissel is from the Time Tunnel TV show.

[@user-db1tj2yv1c]

He was also in the 2002 version as a flower sales person....

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

Responsible for the complete elimination of "Wilbur" as a name.

[@gregzaffuto4507]

I think you're absolutely correct on that... although the theme song lives on in my head. "A horse is a horse, of course, of course" @@jasoncaldwell5627

[@DonMachado]

The Time Machine won an Oscar for the effects, particularly for the time forwarding effects. This movie was Rod Taylor's first lead role in a film. He was a popular actor and well liked, but he was mostly second or third billing in movies prior. His popularity shot up a notch or two and got a lot more lead roles. He continued doing movie and TV well into the 80's (Falcon Crest).

[@raybernal6829]

He also was in Hitchcock's The Birds of couple years later.

[@StCerberusEngel]

The idea of the Morlocks and the Eloi is that there was something of a class switch, where the Eloi were the pampered rich class being held up by the peasant/blue-collar wage slaves that kept the machines running. Eventually, over time, the Eloi became so docile and apathetic from never having to work or worry that they became the cattle to the Morlocks that turned to cannibalism to ensure their own survival. The enslaved became the slavers and vice versa. Literally "eating the rich" as it were. Both species of human devolved, but in different ways.

[@adaddinsane]

Like most critical thinkers of the period, HG was a eugenicist. It's an unpleasant thought but it says a lot about the structure he created.

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

Something not really shown in the Pal version - but done very nicely in the 90's Guy Pierce version - was that the Morlocks were SMART. It really was a class that took advantage of the unthinking masses.

[@grabtharshammer]

Disagree, as the rings stated, when the last war started it was the Morlocks that took to the caves to survive the Nuclear destruction (which was shown on his travels through time just before the Earth fought back). That would be the Politicians, the army Generals, the super rich. Do you think they would allow the ordinary people to get to safety? We know from the cold war, what the plans were for human survival and it didn't include the average Joe / Josephine. You have to remember, this film was made in 1960, a time of great fear of WW3, this story is written based on those current fears. The film story differs greatly from what HG Wells envisaged, the Eloi were minature people, the Morlocks de-evolved into ape like creatures and in the book Weena is killed. This episode in the film is only one single part of the total story of Wells vision, where he went backwards as well as forward to the end of the Earth. HG Wells had no knowledge of Nuclear bombs, but understood humans and how war had progressed in the 19th century, well enough to understand what could happen in a future where war advanced as it had been doing. He wasn't far off though considering that WW1 or WW2 hadn't happened when he wrote this

[@christopherb501]

@@grabtharshammer The class divide and its extrapolations was a focus of the books; the anti-war theme of the movie was its own invention.

[@richardb6260]

I'm so happy you're watching these older films. Assuming you haven't seen it, I'd love you to watch Forbidden Planet (1956). It's one of my favorite Sci Fi films. It's effects still hold up. For another H G Wells film, I highly recommend The Man Who Could Work Miracles. A later, related film I'd like you to watch is Time After Time which also deals with H G Wells' time machine, but in a very imaginative, meta sort of way.

[@flexableferret]

I was lookin for the Time After Time comment.💖

[@dylanschoon9371]

I just recently purchased and watched Time After Time on *LaserDisc* (LOVE the artwork and display aesthetic of the format). It has quickly become a new unexpected favorite of mine. David Warner is great in it too! Another unexpected surprise new* favorite film is the beautiful technicolor musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". Completely blew me away. I was shocked that I had never even heard of it before. I was wonderfully lovingly astounded! Highly recommend!

[@isthisoklahoma]

Trivia: The Time Machine appears in the movie Gremlins when the father calls home from the invention convention. In one shot its spinning up behind him, the next shot it's gone and people are confused... where did it go?

[@8RBrain]

Additional trivia This movie is referenced in The Big Bang Theory episode 14 "the "Nerdvana Annihilation" when Leonard buys the time machine prop from this movie at an online auction and thinks it is the miniature version. When his purchase arrives, it is the full sized one.

[@DeValiere_]

Whenever I see this movie. I always get a hankering to watch Time After Time. Any movie that combines Time Travel and Jack the Ripper is good with me :)

[@BeachcomberNZ]

Whit Bissell, who played the part of Walter, also played the part of General Heywood Kirk, the guy in charge of the time tunnel project, in the 1960's sci-fi TV series Time Tunnel.

[@JayM409]

I was an extra in an episode of the TV series Stingray, titled 'Night Manoeuvres.' The episode was directed by Bobby Darren, one of the stars of Time Tunnel.

[@sasamichan]

Alen Young known for Mister Ed, and Duck Tales. The Time Machine prop was reused in the movie Gremlins The Time Machine was also remade in the early 2000s the TV series Time After Time is among many TV shows that play with the idea that the real H G Wells time traveled This movie has had a cultural impact in other ways as well There is apparently a documentary called Time Machine: The Journey Back And this design for a Time Machine: is one of the most iconic right along with Back to the Future, Dr. Who and Bill and Ted Videos like this are proof that just because some one "Reads a lot" doesn't mean they have "Read every commonly known book" Some one once asked me to name a movie based on a book he had not read and when I suggested this he reacted as if I was crazy to think he hadn't read it. But really ask some one with no internet in front of them to name a book and this will come to mind way before some much more obscure one.

[@ernestitoe]

Filby was played by Alan Young, who had been in the movie Tom Thumb two years before, and two years later he was the star of a TV show called Mr. Ed, in which he was the owner of a horse that could talk and was smarter than he was. The grouchy bearded guy was played by Sebastian Cabot, a great self-taught British actor who was in movies (some of them as a voice actor) and television. In the United States, he was best known as a gentleman's gentleman in the TV series Family Affair. Weena was played by 18-year-old Yvette Mimieux, who had had a few forgettable movie roles before starring in this movie. She was in a few of the teen-surfer movies of the early '60s and had a long career in a lot of roles in movies and on TV. I liked the way she gave the impression of a nice girl who had no idea what the time traveler was talking about -- that sweet, blank look. Good acting. I had read the book before the movie came out. In the book, the Eloi were young children, and Weena was a cute little kid who followed the time traveler around, and the Morlocks were like pale (from living underground and in the dark) humans, or more human-like than the movie Morlocks. I was disappointed in the movie Morlocks; I thought the green monsters looked cheesy and I still do. (I was a very literal and scientific 9-year-old in 1960.)

[@andrewrawlings5220]

You make a good point about the possible toxicity of the flora in the far future. You'd think the man who wrote 'War Of The Worlds' would have considered that.

[@rg3388]

I love that after films such as this and THE BIRDS, Rod Taylor ended up in INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.

[@LucareonVee]

I'll never forget the first time I saw this movie and recognized Scrooge McDuck's voice!

[@jbacunn]

I think this movie was on TBS all the time when I was a kid. I think I must have watched it 8-10 times. It still holds up.

[@PrinceIMC]

In the original book the separation of Morlock and Eloi was more the classes separating for thousands of years. This movie made in the 1960s was more about atomic war and the one from the early 2000s is about us destroying ourselves by going too far with technology.

[@wesrrowlands8309]

George Pal did amazing work with all his movies. If the guy playing Filby sounds familiar it's because he was the original voice of Scrooge McDuck and he was in the horrid remake in 2002 as the owner of a dress shop. There is a tv bit on the one dvd release where George and Filby meet up after a long time and the actors did it could without rehearsing or seeing each other before then.

[@backtoearth1983]

I thought he sounded like Scrooge

[@TheInfo45]

I've been a big fan of this film since I was a child when my father first showed it to me but I always heard Scrooge McDuck

[@seigeengine]

I remember liking the 2002 version, but I did watch it as a kid without having yet read the book or seen this movie.

[@JohnMiller-zn9pf]

I enjoyed the 2002 version

[@LenOliver-yz6os]

@@JohnMiller-zn9pfSame here.

[@mdpetty53]

A good friend of mine played one of the young, blond eloi in the group scenes. He told me the shooting was fun but he was not cut out for acting. So he went to the other side of the camera and become an award winning art director.

[@knowsyseducationalservices3425]

The imagination of H.G. Wells was awesome!!! He was such a futurist and dreamer -- his understanding of humanity and what we are capable of and what we can and will do as humans shows his intellectual brilliance in foreseeing the future. His works are the basis for all modern science fiction. He created the Sci-Fi genre.

[@gclark01]

9 years old me was more scared of 1966 than the morlocks. In 1960 it seemed to real.

[@judywelch1044]

Saw this at the theater when it came out. One of my favourites as a kid. I was 10 and it sooo opened my scientific mind. Great writer.

[@loren-zen-way7699]

Time after time is a great version Of the time machine classic. Has Malcolm McDowell and David Warner in it

[@dcanmore]

Alan Young (Filby) had a cameo in the 2010 remake, he was 90 years old at the time and lived until 96.

[@UnlicensedOkie]

Y’all remember the movie Gremlins The part where the dad is at an invention show and is talking on the phone. There’s the Time Machine in the background. In the next shot, it suddenly disappeared and everybody is running around freaking out

[@paintedjaguar]

I've always loved this movie. Saw it in the theater in 1960 or so - that decaying Morlock really got me back then! I've been waiting for someone to get to this one, along with "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959) and Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" which are in the same charming Victorian SF vein as "The Time Machine". These films were just plain fun.

[@JeffKelly03]

As soon as Emily picked up on Rod Taylor's character's best friend's voice, I was waiting for her to mention Scrooge McDuck. DuckTales... WOO-woo!

[@davidanderson1639]

The 1960 version of The Time Machine & the 1953 version of War of The Worlds are absolute must watch films. The Time Machine had a budget of under $1 million & due to this, the film could not be shot on location in London. Live-action scenes were filmed from May 25 to June 30, 1959, in Culver City, California, with the backgrounds often filled in with matte paintings and models. Some of the costumes and set were re-used from Forbidden Planet (1956), such as the Civil Defence air raid officer uniform, which was the C-57-D crew uniform, and the large acrylic sphere in the talking rings room, a prop from the C-57-D's control bridge. In scenes where lava is shown to overrun the streets of London onto a miniature replica set, oatmeal was used as a substitute. The oatmeal had been prepared several days prior and left over a weekend, where it fermented in high temperatures, creating a "foul stench" in the air when it was released. The opening sequence of Back to The Future pays homage to the opening of The Time Machine. Also, in Gremlins the Time Machine appears in the back of the shots (as does Robbie the Robot from The Forbidden Planet) at the inventors convention….& it promptly vanishes leaving bemused onlookers.

[@raymacdonaldcreations505]

BTW, another interesting movie related to H.G. Wells Time Machine is the 1979 Sci-fi thriller "Time After Time" starring Malcolm McDowell Where Jack the Ripper steals the time machine...

[@keithbrown8490]

This is a classic ! Others have mentioned seeing "Time After Time" another great time travel movie ! Also the group of his friends besides actors Alan Young and Whit Bissell mentioned in other comments you had Tom Helmore best known as the killer husband in "Vertigo" and Sebastian Cabot who for most everyone is best remembered as Mr. French the butler/nanny on the 60's comedy "Family Affair".

[@Dreamfox-df6bg]

About those businessmen not understanding the profitability of time travel. Once you delve into the world of the time, it doesn't sound so stupid any more. The time when parents feds their children laudanum, a tincture of opium or something similar addictive was sold to relief tooth ache. And that's not the most stupid (from our perspective) things people did and believe at the time. Those businessmen didn't see anything they could sell and that was that. The concept of going into the future and stay ahead of stock prices, bring back inventions or just the knowledge where then undiscovered resources could be found went over their heads. There is something we tend to forget. The novel 'The Time Machine' was one of the first that brought the idea of time travel into the public. Since then there were many more stories, movies and shows about the idea. An average movie goer has a lot more understanding about the possibilities and dangers of time travel than most people in the beginning of the 20the century. BTW, the novel is from 1895, so it is save to assume that H. G. Wells had a good idea about people from that time knew and how they thought. That's something I like about stories from earlier times that play out in those times. You get a view into how people were back then. Those stories leave out a lot of information, because everyone at the time the story was published would have known that. For example, watch the 1973 movie 'The Day of the Jackal' and witness how the police had to go through mountains of paper files on their search for a professional killer and how slow (by today's standards) data was gathered and transmitted back then. BTW, if you want to watch some forgotten Science Fiction movies, give the TV mini series 'The Martian Chronicles' (1980) a try. The effects are not good, but the stories are great. They also star the great Rock Hudson, who, if he is remembered at all, is remembered mostly as one of the early prominent victim of AIDS, which shocked Hollywood to it's core.

[@goldenager59]

Yes, on page or screen I've viewed many time-travel tales that show that it doesn't do to underestimate our ancestors' intelligence (cf Harry Turtledove's "Death in Vesunna) and plain horse sense (Poul Anderson's classic "The Man Who Came Early"). But conversely, it makes every bit as much sense not to _over_ -estimate their capabilities either! And yes, old Rock was great - greater even than many of his fans who know him only from his movie and TV pairings with Doris Day and Susan Saint James realize, to wit: his richly sensitive performance in the profound (and profoundly chilling) science fiction tale *Seconds* from 1966. 😎

[@christopherb501]

Ray Bradbury...dayum.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Great reaction. I don't think I've ever seen anyone react to this movie before. I really like how... OMG! What's this little model thing that just appeared?!

[@HermanVonPetri]

One of the distinguishing characteristics of H. G. Wells' writing is his focus on society. For his stories he invents some instigating phenomenon, and then rather than get lost in how that phenomenon works he instead explores how society and individuals react and change. Usually, he focuses on how outside society might react directly to that phenomenon (i.e. "War of the Worlds" or "In the Days of the Comet.") Sometimes, how it changes the individual or forms a new society ("The Invisible Man," "The Island of Dr. Moreau") but at other times he uses the new factor to explore changes in society over time, as in the case with "The Time Machine" or "The Sleeper Awakes." Wells is often compared to Jules Verne, of course. But it seems to me that Verne's most famous works were mostly adventure stories in a sci-fi setting with the occasional slant towards character examination and futurism. H.G. Wells almost always used his platform for storytelling as social commentary with a message.

[@DASBIGUN]

you should watch the remake, as it isnt too bad. EDIT: The remake also goes more indepth about the murlocks (lol). I mean, you guys went on and on about WHY the morlocks where that way, the remake handles a LOT of that.

[@user-dg7fn3ih1s]

12:49 The "lava" in the volcano scene in downtown was actually oatmeal with orange and red food coloring spilled onto a platform and slowly moved down the miniature set.

[@martinsandt1135]

love this Movie since i was about 10 years old (38 years ago ...)

[@MrRSCHECK]

I love how Futurama payed a tribute to this film...

[@RaptorNX01]

gremlins referenced it, too.

[@albertusmagnus6606]

"Where in the Zardoz are we now?" 😂😂

[@ibnteos]

There's the 2002 remake with Guy Pierce, where the character's motivation was to prevent a fatal accident then he goes to the future asking the question of why the past cannot be changed. Other oldies to check out: "20,000 leagues under the sea" (1954) with James Mason and Kirk Douglas; "Journey to the center of the earth" (1959) with James Mason and Pat Boone, and "The Black Hole" (1979) for a newer sci-fi in space :)

[@oriole21bird]

I love 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. A Classic.

[@nocturneJOJO]

I would add "The Island at the Top of the World" ;)

[@etthelost]

Awesome reaction to an absolutely classic flick. I'd highly recommended clash of the titans, journey to the center of the earth, the thief of baghdad, the 7th voyage of sinbad and jason and the Argonauts.

[@Spindler2007]

I love The Time Machine. This has been in one of my favourite movies of all time since I was a kid and I still watch it to this day. The Morlocks used to give me nightmares when I was little as their design was always creepy with how they look and how they stay in the shadows giving them a sense of mystery and suspense.

[@garricksmalley1733]

You can not go to deep with this movie because The Eloi are the idle rich and the Morlocks are the working class. Wells wrote this as a lesson to the rich and powerful. If the idle rich do not care about the working class then the Morlocks will "eat" them. The book is well worth the read. Your guesses we so fun to listen to I had to laugh. 🤣 If you have not seen it yet "Time After Time" from 1979 H.G. Wells has to catch Jack the Ripper who has stolen his time machine.

[@bobriemersma]

I'm always amazed at how each movie adaptation of the story warps it with the agenda in vogue in Hollywood.

[@judywelch1044]

This writer is brilliant at seeing into the future. Many of his stories are a view to the future as it is now.

[@Runescope]

Doc: "You're not thinking 4th dimensionlly!" Marty: "Yeah, I have a problem with that."

[@shainewhite2781]

Love this movie! It won Best Visual Effects! They time lapse and stop motion animation for the time travel sequences.

[@bobriemersma]

"Has Anybody Seen My Gal" (1952) comedy set in the Roaring '20s.

[@dachannien]

The most fascinating time travel movie: Primer. It's complicated enough that it takes multiple viewings to understand it on every level, but the most important level (the character story) is right out in front on the first watch. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I recommend that anybody who likes sci-fi should give it a shot.

[@commanderkruge]

You gotta love how this shop kept the exact same showroom dummy in it's window without ever moving it for decades, if not centuries. :D

[@rickardroach9075]

3:16 “Damn! I'm late for school!” All the clocks chiming at 8 o’clock was homaged in the opening scene of _Back to the Future._

[@kjuddnelson5426]

One of my favorite movies! The 2002 version proved that you can't go back in time as the time machine itself didn't exist in the past so you can only go forward in time.

[@002DrEvil]

Alan Young also appeared in Tom Thumb, made a couple of years earlier, and that's a great light-hearted family film.

[@mocrg]

This is a wonderful movie. The earnestness of Rod Taylor’s performance, Russell Garcia’s music. The sad yet curious bent to the script.

[@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures]

Nicely put. And yes, Russell Garcia's music is just beautiful, it just evokes aching nostalgia.

[@davidgradwell8830]

Rod Taylor (George the Time Traveller!) used to talk about how he (for the rest of his life) got many fan letters about this movie. The letter-writers would always tell him which three books they would have chosen to rebuild civilization. Usually, they would add a religious book--like the Bible or the Koran--to the mix. Basically, whatever religion the writer was--that was their special book and that was the one they'd bring into the future! Actually, I really like Filby's question--that final line. It surely provoked many thoughtful and deep conversations after people left the theater to go home.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

The hardest part about time travel is getting your tenses right. I used to have trouble with my tenses, but not yet.

[@LordKhyron85]

If you're looking for a great older sci-fi movie, I would like to heartily recommend Forbidden Planet, which is my favorite sci-fi movie of the 50s, and one of my favorites sci-fi movies, period.

[@kevinmoppett4760]

Saw this as a kid and the Morlocks scared the poop out of me. Especially the one that disintegrates as he goes forward in time. Loved it!!!

[@jamiepandohie9169]

This movie is a Timeless Classic...One of my all time Favorite Sci Fiction movies

[@heatherrobertson6110]

Just remember, that little model time machine is trundling forward in time, for ever and ever for all eternity unless time itself ends. I think about that fact a lot more than it warrants!

[@ak99uk]

If you learn about HG's life, you can see where he got his ideas. He was the son of "below stairs" staff, and had the experience of working for a high class family living the good life (the Eloi). The staff' literally lived below ground, like the Morlocks, and had tunnels with air-vents which connected to the main house. As a young boy, he used to explore the house and grounds at night.

[@august_king]

Outstanding reaction. I enjoyed your discussion afterwards as much as your reaction. Just wonderful. There is a great 1979 film that tinkers a little with this story called "Time After Time". Great cast and intriguing premise. Also, staying with the same trend, if you haven't seen it, the Tom Cruise remake of War of the Worlds from 2005 is quite good.

[@rcrawford42]

George Pal War of the Worlds WAY before the Tom Cruise one.

[@michaelceraso1977]

yess I have a few reactors who will love Time after TIME, jEN Murray who loved the STar trek films and the Back to future trilogy would love that one, SO would Dawn marie from scotland who started the BT T Future films and I think will be uploading the 3rd one by this weekend. she loved DOc and the whole idea of time travel

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

Time After Time is such brilliant take on HG Wells's Time Machine. The scene in the hotel room with Jack explaining the "failure" of utopia is dripping stuff.

[@Rickhorse1]

I was an 8yo when I saw this in the theater. Yvette Mimieux (Weena) is my first memory of a "crush". (Before I even knew what that was....hehe) Funny thing is...in the years after, I never saw anything she was in...until 10+ years later & when I saw the mature Yvette...well, I knew what a crush was. LOL

[@barbaralenihan7451]

She was in the 1977 made for tv movie(now a cult classic) "Snowbeast", also starring Bo Svenson, Clint Walker, and Sylvia Sydney.

[@davidgradwell8830]

This movie served as a template for "Doctor Who." The Time Traveler is the Doctor, Weena is his companion, the Time Machine is the TARDIS, and the Morlocks are the menace. Just like the Doctor, George lands in a strange time and place, sees injustice, sizes up the situation, sides with the underdogs, then fights the menace and leads a revolution--aided by Weena, his companion! (And by the blonde guy who shows promise--the companion-in-waiting.)

[@CrashLandon1]

This opening music always sends my mind back thirty years in time, to my Commodore 64. Never change it.

[@buffstraw2969]

The special effects were done by the unsung genius & sfx pioneer Wah Chang. His life story would make a terrific movie.

[@sagan666]

I remember watching this with my Dad when I was a young boy, not seen it since. Thanks for the upload and triggering lots of old memories. RIP dad.

[@melenatorr]

The cast of this one was very exciting to me: Sebastian Cabot was familiar to me as a regular on the tv series "Family Affair". And Alan Young was the man who talked to the Talking Horse, "Mister Ed", a very popular series when I was growing up. Rod Taylor was the male lead in "The Birds", and has a really nice, friendly warmth about him. Yvette Mimeux (sp) was also a lovely and popular actress during this time; she never achieved "top tier" stardom, but was a sweetly-pretty addition to any movie she was in. George Pal has an association with world-class creature animator Ray Harryhausen.

[@nintendianajones64]

One of my favorite movies of all time. Great score too. Thanks for the reaction.

[@RoninDrake3724]

I watched this movie a few times growing up and it's only as I'm seeing it now that I realize because this was the first story about time travel, at no point does the protagonist ever seem to consider that he could *change* the facts of history that he comes across. He had a time machine but he still viewed history as immutable, so any of the thoughts of "I could go back to earlier and do things differently" just weren't in his mental toolbox.

[@hendrsb33]

TBH, it was a good thing George's businessmen friends couldn't imagine the financial benefits of having a time machine. They would've abused it and created a temporal mess.

[@dcanmore]

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) are a must see. Both Jules Verne stories and starring James Mason.

[@002DrEvil]

Back to the Future borrowed the idea of multiple clocks at the beginning and took it to the extreme!

[@Nasty-Canasta]

I'll never get tired of the "Onion on my belt" joke

[@JayM409]

This came out the year I was born. I don't remember when I first saw it, but it remains one of my favourite movies. I've owned a DVD copy for many years.

[@Redfern42]

In a DVD release of the film from the early to mid 2000s, there is a short segment that had Rod Taylor and Alan Young reprise their roles. George returns to the past to hopefully avert Filby's fate, that is, getting killed during World War One. It's not an "action" piece, but rather a verbal exchange confined to George's lab, but it is still quite emotional. I won't state any more details and thus "spoil" the resolution. 🥺

[@bobmessier5215]

Rod Taylor was perhaps, best known for his role in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and Alan Young (Philby) starred on the 60's TV comedy series about a talking horse, "Mr. Ed".

[@johnniekight1879]

Saw this in the theater when it came out. And yes, we all had a crush on Yvette.

[@shampoovta]

Time after Time is good too.

[@MrHws5mp]

The current consensus in the industry about SFX seems to be that the best approach is to do as much as possible with practical effects, including making them safer with things like thick ropes and crash pads rather than thin wires, and then use CGI to clean the results up by editing out the safety stuff and any straight up mistakes, and adding background and 'atmospheric' elements that would be impossible or difficult to control in a practical setting. It's also well-established that actors have a hard time acting to thin air, so anything that gives them physical interaction with something or someone, even if it's a guy in a ludicrous green suit who's going to be replaced by an awesome creature in post, makes their performances much better and more believeable.

[@Cheshirewatcher]

Aww sweet guys!!!! I grew up with this film (on video, not that old lol) and you can't beat a classic George Pal movie. So good to see you guys all doing well 😊. If you like this then you should watch "When Worlds collide". Even more a cult classic than this one lol. #title "wiseman of the wonderbox" 🎥🎬

[@light9999]

His crew of friends are actually one business man/investor, one doctor/sciencey guy, one wealthy drunkard/playboy, and one shop keeper/most excellent friend.

[@chrisjackson5210]

The Time Machine is one of those 'lightning in a bottle' things. You just can't plan to make something as irresistably charming as this. Like trying deliberately to make a cult film, it just doesn't work. Although I think TTM tends to run out of steam(punk) towards the second half it's still a surprisingly thoughtful take on what could otherwise just be a standard fantasy adventure. A good example too of adding new elements not present in the book without detriment to the original story; the extended sequences with Filby Snr. and Jnr. don't appear in the book at all but the film would be far less without them.

[@DavidGBrooks]

First time I watched this movie, my apartmemt was half smashed up as work men were building a extension to my home and also remimds me of boiled onions with melted butter on as that's what i was eating when first watched it

[@ruggerobelloni4743]

Imagine seeing this on the big screen as a child and talk with schoolmates about it later. We worried about a 1966 war, had a crush on Weena and had no idea that the apathy and lack of curiosity of the Eloi was the only change we would witness as adults. no

[@donnab8000]

The heavyset guy with the full beard is Sebastian Cabot. He portrayed Mr. French in the 1966 thru 1971 TV show Family Affair.

[@GigiC4]

I love this movie, I saw it first as a child and let me tell you the Morlocks were very scary to a 8 year old.

[@palebeachbum]

I recommend y'all also watch the remake from 2002. Totally different vibe. Also, check out the 1979 movie Time After Time. Great movie!

[@kebasor]

I completely agree! I actually rate the 2002 version among my top favorite movies, both for the soundtrack and the shift from the highly scientific-minded 1960 version to one focusing on the characters and why time travel and time machines are ultimately futile pursuits.

[@Fast_Eddy_Magic]

Time travel problem #17: Bringing your cellphone to 17th century Salem.

[@ChristopherMcCullah]

Re-Watch Gremlins during the scene the dad is calling from a phone at the inventor's convention, and look in the background for a cameo of this time machine.

[@Stogie2112]

Yvette Mimieux .....*SIGH* 😍😍 This young boy was so in love with Weena!

[@mwflanagan1]

So glad you reacted to this one. I’ve probably seen it 30 times, and enjoy it every time. Thanks. If you liked Rod Taylor in the main role, you might enjoy a silly movie with him and Doris Day called ‘The Glass Bottom Boat’. Definitely a ‘60s cheese movie. Alternatively, I enjoy the original film version of Fahrenheit 451 even better than the book - a Ray Bradbury great.

[@-R.Gray-]

Him going back at the end reminded me of the 1937 movie Lost Horizon, where the hero disappears trying to get back to the mythical Tibetan paradise of Shangri La.