Traveling in a Time Machine

London , 1893. Science fiction writer Herbert Wells believes that society will become utopian in the future. He also believes in the ability to travel in time and manages to build a time machine , which he shows to his skeptical friends, including surgeon John Leslie Stevenson. No one knows that the doctor is known among the people as ... Jack the Ripper . Running away from the police, Stevenson experiences the effect of a new invention and is transferred to the future. Wells also follows in order to return the Ripper and transfer it into the hands of the law.

Both travelers find themselves in 1979 in San Francisco . It turns out that society did not become utopian, which greatly upset the writer. In the future, he meets Amy Robbins, with whom he follows the criminal.

• Malcolm McDowell - Herbert Wells
• Mary Steenburgen - Amy Robbins
• David Warner - Jack the Ripper - Dr. John Leslie Stevenson
• Charles Chioffi - Police Lieutenant Mitchell
• Kent Williams - Assistant
• Andonia Katsaros - Mrs. Turner
• Patty D'Arbanville - Shirley
• James Garrett - Edwards
• Leo Lewis - Richardson
• Keith McConnell - Harding
• Carin de la Peña - Jenny
• Geraldine Baron - Carol
• Laurie Mayne - Inspector Gregson
• Joseph Maher - Adams
• Mike Connor Gainey - Bobby
• Michael Evans - Sergeant
• Ray Reinhardt - Jeweler
• Robert Shaw - Bank employee
• Corey Feldman - a boy in the museum
• Shelley Hack - Associate Professor

• Stage Director: Nicholas Meyer
• Screenwriter: Nicholas Meyer
• Producers: Herb Jaffe, Stephen Charles Jaffe
• Operator: Paul Lohmann
• Composer: Miklos Rozha
• Editor: Don Cambern
• Set Designer: Edward Carfagno
• Costume Designers: Sal Anthony, Yvonne Cubebys
• Make-up artist: Lynn F. Reynolds
• Sound Engineers: Jerry Jost
• Special Effects: Jim Blount, Larry L. Fuentes, Kevin Pike
• Visual effects: Richard Taylor
• Stunt Director: Everett Crich
• Conductor: Christopher Palmer

• 1979 - Saturn Prize :
  • Best Actress - Mary Steenburgen
  • Best Music - Miklos Rozha
  • Best Screenplay - Nicholas Meyer
  • Best Actor Nomination - Malcolm McDowell
  • Best Costume Award Nomination - Sal Anthony and Yvonne Cube
  • Best Director Award Nomination - Nicholas Meyer
  • Best Science Fiction Film Award Nomination
  • Best Supporting Actor Award Nomination - David Warner
• 1980 - Grand Prix of the Avoriaz Fiction Film Festival - Nicholas Meyer
• 1980 - Edgar Alan Poe Nomination Award - Nicholas Meyer
• 1980 - Hugo Nomination for Best Performance

• The film features a chronicle depicting the personalities of Neil Armstrong , Winston Churchill , Jimmy Hendrix , John F. Kennedy , Douglas MacArthur , Edward Marrow and Franklin Roosevelt .
• On the set of the picture, the leading actors Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen began a stormy romance. Later, the actors got married, but after a while broke up.
• In the role of Amy Robbins, the film studio saw Sally Field , and the director was her girlfriend, actress Shelley Hack, who nevertheless gave a role in this film. The same story happened with the role of Herbert Wells: the studio saw Richard Dreyfus , and Meyer - Derek Jacobi , but then the director leaned towards Malcolm McDowell, as he was a big fan of Lindsay Anderson's work.
• Mick Jagger was considered the role of Jack the Ripper.
• Corey Feldman 's debut film

• "Imagine! A scientific genius named HG Wells stalks a criminal genius named Jack the Ripper across time itself, in the most ingenious thriller of our time ... "
• HG Wells Races Through Time To Catch Jack The Ripper!
• The Wildest Chase of the Century!
• A chase through time - to catch Jack the Ripper!

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