1960 · science fiction · adventure
The Time Machine
Directed by George Pal1h 43m1960
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Our read: The Time Machine (1960) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive science fiction · adventure entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured science fiction / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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