Proto-Steampunk: Time After Time

[karadinart]

If you are looking for a good film, try this sci-fi adventure from 1979, written and directed by Nicolas Meyer (author of The Seven-Percent Solution where Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud)

Malcom McDowell plays author H.G. Wells, who in the Victorian Era builds the Time Machine from his novel of the same name, then uses it to track Jack the Ripper (David Warner) into modern-day San Francisco. The script is excellent, well-paced and with a few unexpected twists and turns - the special effects stand up very well, but it's the acting (including love interest Mary Steenburgen) that will win you over. Incidentally, the love story in the film became real when Malcom McDowell and Mary Steenburgen (meeting for the first time on set) were married.

Comments

[earthspirits.livejournal.com]

I've always liked this film, and all of the leads in it are amazing. A perfect Victorian steampunk romp. : ) (And I love time travel stories!).

[karadin.livejournal.com]

It works as a sci-fi thriller and a romance, and that don't happen often!