THE
TIME TRAVELERS is one of my favorites. A team of technicians working on
a screen capable of viewing other points in time discover the screen is
in fact a doorway and find themselves stranded in a distant future
where human life is almost extinct. I love everything about this
picture: the cast, the performances, the color, the sets, the costumes,
the music, the dialog, just wonderful. Granted the film takes several breaks to demonstrate various stage illusions as scientific inventions, but even these are rather charming. Look for Famous
Monsters creator Forry Ackerman in one of his film cameos.
Remade/reworked a couple years later as JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF TIME
(with Scott Brady and Anthony Eisley, and a bit part from a young Lyle
Waggner). The two productions shared some of the same crew, including
the script girl! Large swaths of dialog were repeated, though it manages
to be it's own movie.
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