It’s about time.
Caught between the apathetic Eloi and the slovenly Morlocks, H. George Wells seeks a ray of sanity in a civilization on the brink of collapse. No, it’s not the U.S. in time of COVID, but rather George Pal’s big screen adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine” (1960).
Roy Bjellquist and I will discuss this sixty-year-old classic, about an idealistic Victorian scientist, who hopes to find validation, once free of the Boer War, of man’s higher good, only to discover an England ravaged repeatedly, by two world wars and a nuclear holocaust.
Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux of “Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell” are joined by Sebastian Cabot of “Family Affair” and Alan Young of “Mr. Ed.”
We are now as far away from this movie as this movie was from the year in which it was set (1900)!
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