Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws ...
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Title: Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)
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Ward Costello | ... |
Dr. Robert Hedges
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Claire Erling
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Frederic Downs | ... |
Prof. Howard Erling
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John Stratton | ... |
Victor
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Future Woman /
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Angelo
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Beatrice Furdeaux | ... |
Miss Blake
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Jack Dimond | ... |
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Dr. Blair
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William Cost | ... |
Joe the Bartender
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Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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time machine | statuette | interrupted kiss | tackling someone | blood |Taglines:
From Time Unborn ... A Hideous She-Thing!Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
January 1958 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Terror from 5000 A.D. See more »Filming Locations:
American Museum of Natural History - Central Park West at 79th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA See more »Company Credits
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First known movie appearance of the new 1958 Edsel automobile. See more »Goofs
In the scene where the two scientists to whom Dr. Hedges has sent the statue for analysis discover it is radioactive, the shadow of the boom microphone can be seen on the window blinds. See more »Quotes
Narrator: In the year nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, Man launched the first satellite and pierced the space barrier.See more »
As far as I know, this is the first American feature film about time travel via a time machine. A time machine was featured in the American serial BRICK BRADFORD (1947) and in the English comedy TIME FLIES (1944). Film firsts should be noted and applauded even if the films they appear in are otherwise unremarkable. TERROR FROM THE YEAR 5000 is a somewhat lackluster production with uneven performances and direction. I say that this film is shade a better than most other low budget quickies from 1958 in that its story slightly more imaginative. The time machine was something new to films in 1958, the bit with the hypnotic finger nails is certainly unusual and don't forget the four eyed mutant cat from the future. I thought the idea of having the future women at first mistakenly speaking Greek was a clever idea, since the present people had sent the future people with trinkets that had Greek writing on them. The make up for the future woman is quite poor, no wonder the director mostly kept her face hidden throughout. There is one scene where the scientists leave the island and go to a movie on the mainland. AIP studio heads must of come up with this scene to insert a little promotion. The film they go to see is AIP's I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN. Oh, by the way, I like the 1958 Edsel Corsair that Ward Costello drives.