Time After Time
- PG
- Year:
- 1979
- 112 min
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Mind your step, Jenny.
Don't you worry none about me.
I can hold me gin.
I'm right as rain.
Ta-ta, love.
Mind how you go.
- Evening.
- Good evening.
- It's a raw night, isn't it?
- Yes. Raw.
- You'll ruin them fine clothes.
- Would you like this?
Come straight to the point,
don't you, love?
Well, my place is right along here.
No.
There.
We are in a hurry, aren't we?
Come on, then.
Come along.
Oh, right you are, sir.
Wouldn't want to break it.
Wow. That's lovely.
We got our own band.
Come on, then.
I'm hot and getting colder,
if you take my meaning.
- What's your name, dearie?
- John.
John.
John.
Oh, John.
Oh, John.
John.
John.
But my friends all call me Jack.
Will The Gazette continue
with your pieces on free love, H.G.?
Free love sells newspapers.
Gentleman, the Fleet Street Casanova.
Here, here.
I've got my little experiments
to pay for.
You're the hero of the working class.
Free love is all they can afford.
Oh, Lord.
Don't start him on socialism.
We'll have to listen
to a sermon on it.
Don't call it a sermon. You know
I don't believe in organized religion.
Socialism is the path man must tread
on the way to a utopian society.
We've heard all that. What's this
great announcement we're here for?
- A cure for gravity?
- I want to wait until we're all here.
Who's missing?
- Dr. Stevenson is here.
- Thank you. Send him in.
- Good evening, John.
- Herbert.
- Good evening.
- Hello.
We'd begun to despair. Have you dined?
Thank you, no. Perhaps a little brandy
to take away the chill.
I'm sorry I missed supper, but
a physician's hours are not his own.
- Gentlemen.
- Good health.
Cheers.
What has Herbert left for me tonight?
Chess must wait.
You're just in time for the surprise.
Isn't he, H.G.?
The great big whatever-it-is?
- Am I?
- I was waiting for you.
- I am all attention.
- Very well.
Gentlemen, I have called you here
tonight to bid you farewell.
- Farewell?
- Where are you going?
- Another holiday in Scotland?
- No. No, I am traveling...
...but I'm not leaving London.
I don't expect to leave my laboratory.
- Riddles again.
- Gentlemen.
through time.
In a machine constructed
for that very purpose.
What?
- Poppycock.
- Why?
Electric light, courtesy of Edison,
a modern Prometheus.
Good heavens. You were really serious.
I don't believe it. You've actually
built the bloody thing.
- Free love paid for most of it.
- I've no doubt.
I didn't think practical jokes
was in your line.
Twelve years ago, an engineer used
the sun to power a printing press.
My time machine
uses the same power source.
- You can't be serious.
- This thing is propelled by sunshine?
This cup catches
the rays of the sun...
...converting its heat
to electricity here.
Electricity does the rest. Juxtaposing
fields of energy creating friction.
The result is an ever-increasing
series of reactions...
...that literally rotates the machine
out of one time sphere into another.
Cruising speed is two years per
minute. Go into the past or future.
Two years per minute?
Acceleration keeps the machine and
occupant outside all time spheres...
...conscious, but vaporized.
- How do you determine direction?
West, you gain yesterdays.
East, you accumulate tomorrows.
Balderdash!
Go north, you get to Glasgow.
The machine is designed
The reversal rotation lock returns
the machine to its starting date...
...after the completion of a voyage.
If the occupant is injured
during a flight...
...the passenger is returned
to the point of departure.
Unless he uses this key
to countermand the device.
Without that key,
And what, may I ask, is this?
Well, John...
...this is the vaporizing equalizer.
Without it, the passenger journeys
without the machine...
...and without the machine,
there is no coming back.
Well, H.G., which is it to be?
The past or the future?
The past, surely.
He'll want to meet Cleopatra.
- The future.
- Why the future?
I belong there. In three generations,
social utopia will have come to pass.
There'll be no war, crime or poverty.
And no disease either, John.
Men will live like brothers,
and in equality with women.
- Oh, dear. Let's have the past.
- Here, here.
I can't agree with you. Check.
You astonish me. In the midst of all
your theorizing, you ignore the facts.
We live in a cosmic charnel house.
Mankind has not changed in 2000 years.
We hunt, we're hunted. That's
how it is. How it will always be.
The future will prove you wrong.
The future will tell.
Anyway, I have just one question
for myself. When do you leave?
- I'm not sure.
- Human frailty, at last.
Well, to be quite candid...
...I haven't worked up the nerve.
- First time for that.
But I will. All I have to do is set
the date and activate the switches.
And I'll inherit the Hope diamond.
- Checkmate.
- How does he do it?
- Not again?
- Every time.
I know how he thinks. That's all.
- One day I shall win.
- When you learn how I think.
Sorry to interrupt. Two gentlemen from
Scotland Yard want a word with you.
What is the meaning of this?
Beg pardon, sir.
Might we have a word with you?
- The Ripper? In this vicinity?
- I'm afraid so, sir.
We've cordoned off the neighborhood.
We're asking for cooperation.
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