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The Time Machine

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Original title

The Time Machine

Year

1960

Running time

103 min.

Country

United States

Director

George Pal

Screenwriter

David Duncan. Novel: H.G. Wells

Cast

Music

Russell Garcia

Cinematography

Paul Vogel

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Sci-Fi. Adventure | Time Travel. Steampunk. Nuclear Holocaust. Post-apocalyptic Future

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H.G. Wells Adaptations

Synopsis

From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk capture himself (and being eaten) to return to his own time.

Rankings Position

#62 Best Science Fiction Movies
#131 Best Adventure Movies

Awards: 1960: Oscar: Best Special Effects

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"Parts of it are colorful and imaginative, but the film flattens out toward the end."

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"This smashing science-fiction adaptation of H.G. Wells's famous novel has more creativity in every frame than most latter-day rip-offs have in their entirety."

TV Guide
"The meat of Wells’ novel is sacrificed in favor of all-out spectacle, but in that respect the movie works marvelously."

Entertainment Weekly
"The drama, for all its invention, is creaky and a bit passé. And the mood, while delicately wistful, is not so flippant or droll as it might be in a fiction as fanciful and flighty as this one naturally is."

Bosley Crowther: The New York Times
"An old-fashioned adventure that tries to remain as true to the original text as it could with an excellent score, great special effects, and a story that keeps you watching"

IGN
"The quaint time machine and Oscar-winning special effects hold one's interest initially, but the overall effect is one of glossy emptiness."

Time Out
"The social comment of the original has been historically refined to encompass such plausible eventualities as the physical manifestation of atomic war weapons. But the basic spirit of Wells' work has not been lost."

Variety Staff: Variety

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