Time After Time DVD

Time After Time is a 1979 American film produced by Orion Pictures, starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, and Charles Cioffi. It was written and directed by Nicholas Meyer. The screenplay was based on the novel of the same name, which Meyer had previously published under the name "Karl Alexander." The film was in color and lasted 112 minutes. DVD cover scan from the movie Time After Time, personal scan, claiming fair use (does not detract from original work, scanned from legal copy, image is of sufficiently low resolution). ... DVD cover scan from the movie Time After Time, personal scan, claiming fair use (does not detract from original work, scanned from legal copy, image is of sufficiently low resolution). ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Orion Pictures Corporation was a U.S. movie production company, formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. ... Malcolm McDowell circa 1974 Malcolm McDowell (born June 13, 1943) is a British actor. ... Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress. ... David Warner David Warner (born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England) is a British actor, whose image might be described as sinister. ... Nicholas Meyer (born 24 December 1945 in New York City, USA) is a film writer, producer and director best known for his involvement in the Star Trek films. ...

Plot

The movie tells of how science fiction author H.G. Wells (McDowell) builds a time machine in 1893 London, the same one Wells fictionalized in his novel The Time Machine. Before he is able to test the machine, a physician friend of his (Warner) is discovered to be Jack the Ripper and steals the machine to escape capture by going to 1979 San Francisco. Wells pursues, but has difficulty functioning in the future time beginning with the ineffectual use of a false name of a popular literary character from his time he mistakenly thought would be forgotten, Sherlock Holmes. Eventually, he meets and falls in love with bank employee Amy Robbins (Steenburgen). The duo try to stop the Ripper, who has resumed his killings. Jack finds modern American society to be pleasingly bloody; he remarks at one point that in 1893 Britain he was a monster, but in 1979 America he is an amateur. H. G. Wells at the door of his house at Sandgate Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. ... Time Machine may refer to one of the following. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same name. ... Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ... This article is about the city in California. ... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

In an effort to prove that his time machine is real, H.G. takes Amy on a journey three days into the future. Amy is then horrified to find a newspaper with her own obituary: she is to be the Ripper's fifth victim. H.G. and Amy go back three days to try to change history, but H.G. is arrested for suspicion of the serial killings and Amy is left unprotected. A brutally mangled corpse is found in Amy's apartment, and H.G. has given up Amy for dead until he discovers that a different woman was murdered in her place, and Amy is alive but held hostage by the Ripper. She manages to free herself as the Ripper attempts escape in the time machine. H.G. removes a device (the vaporizing equalizer) from the exterior of the machine's cabin, which causes the Ripper to vanish into infinity without the machine. H.G. and Amy then board the machine themselves and return to Wells' own time, after which (actual) history records that the two marry.

A brief note at the end of the film makes note that H.G. predicted the sexual revolution, and was a supporter of women's liberation and the labor movement

McDowell and Steenburgen married after working together on the film.

External links

• Time after Time at the Internet Movie Database