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Release Date:
31 August 1979 (USA)
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Tagline:
H.G. Wells Races Through Time To Catch Jack The Ripper! more
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H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period. full summary | add synopsis
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Time Machine
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Jack The Ripper
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Bank Clerk
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5 wins
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7 nominations
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(11 articles)
Doctor Who: Dreamland - preview images plus David Warner talks role as evil alien
(From The Geek Files. 2 December 2009, 1:18 PM, PST)
'House' Fan Columnist: House and Cuddy- Time after Time
(From BuddyTV. 12 November 2009, 3:31 AM, PST)
(From The Geek Files. 2 December 2009, 1:18 PM, PST)
'House' Fan Columnist: House and Cuddy- Time after Time
(From BuddyTV. 12 November 2009, 3:31 AM, PST)
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A Fascinating Time Trip
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Malcolm McDowell | ... | H. G. Wells | |
| David Warner | ... | Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson | |
| Mary Steenburgen | ... | Amy Robbins | |
| Charles Cioffi | ... | Police Lt. Mitchell | |
| Kent Williams | ... | Assistant | |
| Andonia Katsaros | ... | Mrs. Turner | |
| Patti D'Arbanville | ... | Shirley | |
| James Garrett | ... | Edwards | |
| Leo Lewis | ... | Richardson | |
| Keith McConnell | ... | Harding | |
| Byron Webster | ... | McKay | |
| Karin de la Penha | ... | Jenny (as Karin Mary Shea) | |
| Geraldine Baron | ... | Carol | |
| Laurie Main | ... | Inspector Gregson | |
| Joseph Maher | ... | Adams |
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112 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:16 |
West Germany:16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
New Zealand:R16 |
Norway:15 (re-rating) |
Norway:16 (original rating) |
Singapore:PG |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG
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Wells's landlady is named "Mrs. Turner." Sherlock Holmes refers to his landlady as "Mrs. Turner" once (in "A Scandal in Bohemia") even though her name is "Mrs. Hudson" in all the other stories. Nicholas Meyer, a Holmes aficionado and author of three well-known Holmes pastiches, is familiar with this inconsistency in the Holmes canon (he even mentions it at one point in his DVD commentary on Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)) and apparently included it as an inside joke, along with the several other Holmes references in the film.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the early part of the movie in Wells home in the 19th century the chess board is set up wrongly. The black corner square must be on the left as each player faces the board.
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H.G. Wells:
Do you still insist that this is all poppycock?
Amy Robbins: That's not exactly the word I had in mind.
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Amy Robbins: That's not exactly the word I had in mind.
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References The Red Shoes (1948)
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"Time After Time" is an interesting movie. It has the legendary H.G. Wells chasing Jack the Ripper through time, from London in 1893 to San Francisco in 1979. Wells is played by Malcolm McDowell, as a young idealistic visionary and scientific genius, who looks upon the future as Utopia. (How many movies can you remember where McDowell was the good guy?) Jack the Ripper is played by David Warner, who exudes something cold and frightening as the infamous killer. While the future hardly turns out to be Wells' imagined Utopia, Jack embraces the prevalent violence of the 20th century. In "From Hell," Jack the Ripper said he had invented the 20th century. "Time After Time" gives that statement a kind of significance. The movie may not offer much to the many theories surrounding the Jack the Ripper mystery, but it's still enjoyable.