Time After Time
Time After Time is a 1979 American science fiction film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen. Filmed in Panavision, it was the directing debut of Meyer, whose screenplay is based on the premise from Karl Alexander's novel Time After Time (which was unfinished at the time) and a story by Alexander and Steve Hayes. The film presents a story in which British author H. G. Wells uses his time machine to pursue Jack the Ripper into the 20th century.
Plot
In 1893 London, popular writer H. G. Wells displays a time machine to his skeptical dinner guests and explains how it works, including having a "non-return key" that keeps the machine at the traveler's destination and a "vaporizing equalizer" that keeps the traveler and machine on equal terms. Police constables suddenly arrive, searching for Jack the Ripper. A bag with blood-stained gloves belonging to Wells's friend John Leslie Stevenson, a surgeon, leads them to conclude that Stevenson may be the killer. Wells races to his laboratory, but the time machine is gone.
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author | Nicholas Meyer |
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award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
contentLocation | London San Francisco |
director | Nicholas Meyer |
editor | Donn Cambern |
events | Jack the Ripper time travel |
genre | action adventure fantasy science fiction thriller |
keywords | 20th century arrest belong bloodshed chartered bank of london dead body dinner guest dismember dismembered body dismemberment emergency room h. g. wells hit by a car kill machine married mcdonald\'s modern society newspaper headline search shock socialism socialist space travel time machine travel utopia |
musicBy | Miklós Rózsa |
producer | Herb Jaffe |
productionCompany | Orion Pictures |
publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures |
theme | chase romantic fantasy science fiction adventure time |