| Author | Subject: Re: john beck version |
| Palmachine | Posted At 22:33:03 05/11/2002
I have seen the 1978 version...it was shabbily produced, the only asset being the fact that one of the stars happened to be Whit Bissell, who must have possessed a love for time travel features...he appeared as Walter Kemp in the original George Pal version of "Time Machine" as well as the Irwin Allen sci-fi series "The Time Tunnel" (portraying General Heywood Kirk) from the late sixties. And lest we forget, he made a short cameo appearance in the documentary, "Time Machine: The Journey Back". John Beck, as the Time Traveler, takes his simplistic looking geometric contraption forward into the future, and as you would suspect, encounters the Wellsian world of Eloi and Morlocks, but not before making a brief stop off in the Wild, Wild West (where did they dream up that sceanario?). The whole film was a disappointment; even poorer than the recent Simon Wells film! The only reason it is collectible is that it deals with Wells' dream machine in a whole new context, and, perhaps there are some fans out there who actually wanted to see Priscilla Barnes' third rate role as Weena. I would choose to own a copy only because it does, in fact, deal with the subject matter of the machine and time travel. As a 'wanna-be' succesor to Pal's vision, however...it fails completely! |