Time After Time (1979 film)
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| Directed by | Nicholas Meyer |
| Produced by | Herb Jaffe |
| Screenplay by | Nicholas Meyer |
| Story by | Steve Hayes |
| Based on |
Time After Time 1979 unpublished novel by Karl Alexander |
| Starring |
Malcolm McDowell David Warner Mary Steenburgen |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Paul Lohmann |
| Edited by | Donn Cambern |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Release date
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September 7, 1979 |
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Running time
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112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $13,000,000 |
Time After Time is a 1979 American Metrocolor science fiction film starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen filmed in Panavision. It was the directing debut of screenwriter Nicholas Meyer, whose screenplay is based on the premise from Karl Alexander's novel of the same name (which was unfinished at the time) and a story by Alexander and Steve Hayes.
The film concerns British author H. G. Wells and his fictional use of a time machine to pursue Jack the Ripper into the 20th century.
In 1893 London, popular writer Herbert George Wells (Malcolm McDowell) displays a time machine to his skeptical dinner guests. After he explains how it works (including 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 arrive at the house searching for Jack the Ripper. A bag with blood-stained gloves belonging to one of Herbert's friends, a surgeon named John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner), leads them to conclude that Stevenson might be the infamous killer. Wells races to his laboratory, but the time machine is gone.
Stevenson has escaped to the future, but because he does not have the "non-return" key, the machine automatically returns to 1893. Herbert uses it to pursue Stevenson to November 5, 1979, where the machine has ended up on display at a museum in San Francisco. He is deeply shocked by the future, having expected it to be an enlightened socialist utopia, only to find chaos in the form of airplanes, automobiles and a worldwide history of war, crime and bloodshed.
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