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We conclude our salute to director/producer George Pal with the film he was invited by the H. G. Well estate to make after his success with "The War of the Worlds." It's not space that is the subject of this film, however, but the fourth dimension: Time! In 1960's "The Time Machine," directed and produced by Pal, with a screenplay written by David Duncan, the story followed H. George Wells (played by Rod Taylor) who arrives late for dinner with his friends David Filby (Alan Young), Dr. Phillip Hillyer (Sebastian Cabot), Anthony Bridewell (Tom Helmore) and Walter Kemp (Whit Bissel), after housekeeper Mrs. Watchett (Doris Lloyd) has already served the meal. George is dirty, his clothing stained and torn, and he relates then his tale of creating a machine to allow him to travel through the fourth dimension of time as we would through the other three dimensions. He encounters World War I, then World War 2, then an Atomic War, after which he is entombed in solid rock. Eventually, after some 800,000 years, he arrives in a time of seeming idyllic prosperity and leisure for humanity. He witnesses a young woman drowning in a river, and watches as none of her companions even seem to notice, so he leaps in to save her. Weena (Yvette Mimieux) becomes his guide to the future society, helping him learn how humanity got this place. But she falls afoul of the grim underground dwellers known as the Morlocks, and they also take his machine, trapping him in the future. George must figure out how to gain access to the Morlock's subterranean domain, rescue Weena, and retrieve his machine, if he has any hope of ever return to his own time! And the trio reveal which American war serves as the backdrop for the next film pairing!
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