The Time Machine (1960)

Directed by

George Pal

Genre

science fiction film, dystopian film, time-travel film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

G

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 928 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Victorian inventor builds a machine that lets him move through time. He travels far into the future and finds humanity has split into two groups: the gentle Eloi and the predatory Morlocks who live underground.

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What happens

The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same title by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. The story is set in Victorian England and follows an inventor who constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future. Once there, he discovers that mankind's descendants have divided into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi. It received the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the future. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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