A professer from the 1800's invents a time machine. His fiance his killed, so he tries to go back in time to save her. It doesn't work so he goes forwrd in time to try to find the answer to time travel. He eventually ends up 800,000 years into the future where mankind is struggling against a group of mutants.
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The review of this Movie prepared by Jack Bauer
George (a version of H.G. Wells played by handsome Taylor), a Victorian inventor, is fed up with his species' behavior and builds a time machine to travel into the magnificent future. He says goodbye to his friends on Dec. 31, 1899 and checks out 1917 (a disappointment), notices some buffeting around 1940, stops in August 1966 (perpetual war going on), and finally zips far into the future: Oct. 12, 802701, to be exact. At first, Earth seems to have become an Eden, but then George discovers the species has evolved into two: the dumb, peaceful Eloi and the crude, ugly, and violent Morlocks who breed the Eloi for labor and food. Partly because the Morlocks commandeer his time machine and partly because he's very taken with a sweet, innocent blonde Eloi girl named Weena (Mimieux, who debuted in three films that year at the age of 18), George leads a revolution against the oppressors. Despite some bad special effects due to a low budget, mixed acting, and a rather silly plot (with old-fashioned fisticuffs against the world-dominating Morlocks), this 1960 classic wears surprisingly well, mostly on the strength of Taylor's warm and stalwart performance, lovely color (for the era), and some nifty time-travel effects.
The review of this Movie prepared by David Loftus
