Time Travelers: Four-Movie Set
Four movies on two double-sided discs!
In the Year 2889 (1967, 80 minutes)
A motley band of nuclear holocaust survivors struggles to keep from killing one another while faced with a shortage of food, fresh water, and alcohol. A retired Navy officer and survivalist situates his home to be completely fall-out resistant. With barely enough food for him and his daughter, the unwelcome crew of interlopers threaten the captain's post-apocalyptic paradise. A stripper and her manager/boyfriend, an athletic (chain-smoking) heart-throb, his radioactive brother, and a perpetually sweat-drenched drunk round out the cast of stragglers. A must see Sci-Fi legend!
Journey to the Center of Time (1967, 85 mins)
Gruff, hard-nosed boss Stanton takes over a scientific research company after the death of his benevolent father. Three scientists, who are very close to a breakthrough in time travel, are told by Stanton they must have results in 24 hours or face a funding cut-off. Trying to push their equipment past its safe operating limit, they travel into the far future and distant past with Stanton along as an accidental participant. They struggle to return to the present, unaware of the surprise that awaits them.
Idaho Transfer (1973, 85 mins)
A crew of young researchers travel into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that a mysterious disaster has de-populated the area around their campsite and possibly the rest of the world. They travel further into the future and are relieved to learn that humankind has recovered from the disaster... or has it?
The Day Time Ended (1980, 80 mins)
Life becomes a living hell when the past, present, and future collide! The story begins as a family moves into their new solar-powered home in an isolated part of the Mojave Desert. All seems well until their youngest daughter begins to see mysterious things - a green pyramid, strange humanoid figures, etc. Soon the family finds itself face-to-face with a strange alien force that puts them in a time-and-space warp!
Member Reviews
A bit of a waste of time, IMHO. - fairweather
First movie - Old, dated, a horror-suspense (like a Hitchcock) with no time travel in it (why is it in the Time-traveller collection?). Slow and tedious, not quick, like an action film. Seminal, perhaps, for scifi horror flicks, but stale and boring for today. Some "thing" is "out there" after a nuclear holocaust which destroyed all the earth and the (only?) survivors have to defend against the "thing/s" and internal conflicts, too. Evolution is postulated and the "mutant/s" from nuclear fallout are not sick with radiation poisioning but advanced biologically because of exposure to "mutations" of a million times over - an idea human genetics has disproved in spades today (there are no beneficial mutations known to science), and the survivors of Russia's nuclear disaster of Chernobyl would laugh at such a postulate for nuclear radioactive fallout.
Second movie - Has time travel in it, both forward and backwards, due to a malfunction in a laboratory. The "bad" guy, if there is one, is the guy who funds the research because he wants to know what his millions is going into and asks questions of the far superior intellects of the scientists (silly capitalists, always looking at the bottom line). He ends up going forward and backward in the malfunction with them. Old Star Trek series is about the same genre, perhaps the old Trek is superior for acting, plot, etc. Slightly better than the old "Land of the Giants" series acting/plot wise.
I don't recommend either title unless you enjoy old flicks, as they aren't really all that entertaining..Not exactly what I expected - Kevy
Although for its time I'm sure it was fasinating I found the first two episodes pretty boring and Tame. Although I did enjoy some of the theroys offered up in Journey to... It sure wasn't what I expected would not be interested in buying but just my opinion!
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A bit of a waste of time, IMHO. - fairweather
First movie - Old, dated, a horror-suspense (like a Hitchcock) with no time travel in it (why is it in the Time-traveller collection?). Slow and tedious, not quick, like an action film. Seminal, perhaps, for scifi horror flicks, but stale and boring for today. ...Not exactly what I expected - Kevy
Although for its time I'm sure it was fasinating I found the first two episodes pretty boring and Tame. Although I did enjoy some of the theroys offered up in Journey to... It sure wasn't what I expected would not be interested in buying but just my opinion!