The Time Travelers Movie Review

A group of scientists discover and pass through a porthole leading to Earth's post-Armageddon future where they encounter tribes of nasty mutants. The last remnants of humanity use androids (who with their featureless, noseless faces look faintly menacing in their own right) as slave labor to build a spaceship to escape the dying planet. Sensing (correctly) that there's not much fun to be had the future, the time travelers make a serious effort to return to their past. This is a serious, thoughtful science-fiction film with an accent on ideas as opposed to phoney-looking monsters. Some viewers might find it a bit too bleak for casual viewing. Professional sf-movie maven Forrest J. Ackerman has a bit role. It was remade several years later as Journey to the Center of Time. AKA: Time Trap.

1964 82m/C Preston Foster, Phil Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt, Joan Woodbury, Dolores Wells, Dennis Patrick, Forrest J. Ackerman, Carol White; D: Ib Melchior; W: Ib Melchior; C: William Zsigmond. VHS, Beta NO