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The Time Machine

1960

George Pal

Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot ...

7.2

9,600

Sci-Fi. Adventure 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"Parts of it are colorful and imaginative, but the film flattens out toward the end."
		TV Guide	"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."
		Entertainment Weekly	"The meat of Wells’ novel is sacrificed in favor of all-out spectacle, but in that respect the movie works marvelously."
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"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."
		IGN	"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"
		Time Out	"The quaint time machine and Oscar-winning special effects hold one's interest initially, but the overall effect is one of glossy emptiness."
		Variety Staff Variety	"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."

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