The Time Machine – also known promotionally as H.G. Wells' The Time Machine – is a 1960 science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells in which a man from Victorian England constructs a time-travelling machine which he uses to travel to the future. The film stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux and Alan Young. The film was produced and directed by George Pal, who had earlier made a film version of Wells's The War of the Worlds . Pal always intended to make a sequel to The Time Machine, but it was not produced; the end of Time Machine: The Journey Back... functions as a sequel of sorts. In 1985, elements of this film were incorporated into The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal, produced by Arnold Leibovit. The film received an Oscar for time-lapse photographic effects showing the world changing rapidly. On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner at a house located near London, but their host, H. George Wells, is absent. As requested, they begin without him, but then George staggers in, exhausted and disheveled. He begins to recount his adventures since they last met on New Year's Eve, 1899.
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| Release date: | August 17, 1960 |
| Directed by: | George Pál |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Producer: | George Pál |
| Editor: | George Tomasini |
| Music by: | Russell Garcia |
| Cinematography: | Paul Vogel |
| Screenplay by: | H. G. Wells, David Duncan |
| Estimated budget: | $850,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Time Machine |
| Genre: | Adventure, Science Fiction, Action |