The Time Machine

Release Date: August 17, 1960
Director, Producer: George Pal
Screenplay: David Duncan
Music: Russell Garcia
Editor: George Tomasini
Starring: Rod Taylor as H. George Wells
Alan Young as David filby
Yvette Mimieux as Weena
Sebastian Cabot as Dr. Philip Hillyer
Distributor: MGM
Time: color 103 min. (WS)
Budget: $850,000

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Interesting Tidbits

George Pal was unable to sell the screenplay of The Time Machine to Hollywood; but he had no such problem with British MGM. The movie's scenes however were filmed in Culver City, California.

Alan Young would later go on to star in the CBS TV series Mr. Ed (1961 - 1966.)

The Plot

On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner in a town in tne south of England, but their host, H. George Wells (Rod Taylor), is absent. As requested, they begin without him, but then George staggers in, exhausted and disheveled. He begins to recount his adventures since they last met on New Year's Eve, 1899.

On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner in a town in tne south of England, but their host, H. George Wells (Rod Taylor), is absent. As requested, they begin without him, but then George staggers in, exhausted and disheveled. He begins to recount his adventures since they last met on New Year's Eve, 1899.

George heads to his laboratory and sits in his full-scale model. He pushes the lever forward and watches time pass at an accelerated rate. To his amusement, he observes the changing of women's fashions on a mannequin in the window of a shop across the street. He stops at September 13, 1917 and mistakes a man in uniform for David. It turns out to be David's son James, who informs George that his father had "died in the war". More...