The Time Machine Movie Review - Starring Rod Taylor and Alan Young

By David Terr

"The Time Machine" is an entertaining and intriguing sci-fi film based on the novel of the same name by H.G. Wells. The movie stars Rod Taylor as George (presumably H.G. Wells), a scientist who invents a time machine, which he uses to travel into the distant future. This is the earliest movie I know of concerned with time travel.

A young inventor from London named George invents a time machine, which he completes on New Years' Eve, 1899. He invites a group of friends over for dinner and tells them that he plans to take a trip into the future at midnight. Although he demonstrates a small model of the machine, making it disappear into the future, his friend still don't believe him.

Come midnight, George begins operating the machine. He pulls the lever ever so slightly and arrives a couple hours into the future. He begins pulling the lever more and more, traveling days, weeks, months, and years into the future. He observes changes outside through his window while traveling. In 1917, his house gets boarded up. He stops the machine and goes outside, learning that the world is at war. He goes back to the machine and continues traveling into the future. He stops once again in 1940 to observe air bombings during World War II. His house gets destroyed while he's operating the machine, but he remains safe while traveling. In 1966 (six years after the movie was released), he hears some loud sirens. He stops the machine again and sees everyone running for fallout shelters. Having no idea what's going on, he stays put to observe global destruction, followed by huge eruptions of lava. He rushes back to the machine just before it gets consumed by the eruption.

Now buried in stone, he pulls the lever hard forward and travels hundreds of thousands of years into the future, waiting for the rock to erode away. Finally it does in the year 802,701. George leaves the machine once again to observe what looks like a very carefree society. However, he soon learns that there are many problems. For one thing, the people, who call themselves Eloi, have no books or even knowledge of fire and seem to have lost the sense of self-preservation. George then learns of another race of people, known as the Morlocks, a brutal race who live underground and practice cannibalism. George and some of the Eloi manage to fight off some of the Morlocks and George narrowly escapes death before getting back to his machine, which he now takes back to the year 1900.

Back home, George tries explaining to his friends about his journey, but they still don't believe him except for his friend Filby, a botanist to whom he shows a flower he'd kept from the future which Filby cannot identify. George decides to go back to the year 802,701, taking three books with him to educate the Eloi and help them build a new society.

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