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Bookmark this pageThe Time Travellers (1964)
Director: Ib Melchior
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From Time Out Film Guide
In spite of some feeble romantic comedy (notably in the android factory sequence) and an occasionally trite musical score, this is an accomplished and enjoyable sci-fi film which contains more ideas than many movies made on far higher budgets. It's about a team of scientists who construct a mirror to the future. The mirror becomes a door, and they get stranded on the wrong side. The middle part has some relatively standard sub-Wellsian plot material involving two future civilisations; but the ending, in which they get caught in a time-trap, is utterly amazing and completely original; it even compares favourably to the trip sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The cameraman, incidentally, was Vilmos Zsigmond.Author: DP
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- martin frost said...
- Posted on Apr 06 2008 12:27 A nice diversion with intrigue and romantic comedy. Got it on a VHS somewhere, this film is unique and therefore memorable.
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Cast & crew
Director: Ib Melchior
Producer: William Redlin
Cast: Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt, Steve Franken full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 84 mins
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