The Time Travelers (1964)

• Year: 1964
• Released: 29 Oct 1964
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058659/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_time_travelers
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Approved
• Genre: Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 84 min
• Writer: Ib Melchior, David L. Hewitt
• Director: Ib Melchior
• Cast: Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders
• Keywords: time travel, mutant, portal,

5.1/10

The Time Travelers Storyline

In 1964, a team of scientists is trying to develop a view screen into the future. What they in fact get is a portal and they soon find themselves on the other side, 107 years into the future in the year 2071, when the portal collapses. The Earth of the future is barren and they are soon attacked by mutated humans but rescued by a group of scientists who are building a spaceship to take them to a new planet. They learn that much of Earth was destroyed as the result of a nuclear war. When it’s determined that the visitors from the past cannot be included in the planned voyage, they work furiously to rebuild the portal and return to their own time before departure day. Meanwhile, always under the threat of attack from the mutants , friendships are formed and they learn of life in the future including the use of robots for menial tasks.

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The Time Travelers Movie Reviews

Far, far better than I expected.

“The Time Travelers” is a sci-fi movie from American International Pictures, a studio famous for low-budget films as well as lousy sci-fi movies. Let me explain why I say lousy sci-fi. Back in the 1960s, AIP, MGM and other studios would buy foreign sci-fi films (Japanese, Italian and Russian). Then, they’d chop them apart and film a few new scenes and voila…instant crap film, such as “Queen of Blood” or “Battle of the Worlds”. I assumed, incorrectly, that “The Time Travelers” was just another crap product….and I am glad I was wrong.

When “The Time Travelers” begins, a small group of scientists are working on a machine to look into the future. It turns out that they can not only LOOK at the future but actually WALK into it…much like the later TV series “The Time Tunnel”. However, when they do this in the year 2071, they become stuck…and wow does the future suck! It seems that nuclear war killed most everyone and the few normal human beings live in tunnels underground….and the rest of the humans are evil mutants bent on killing them!

The few hundred humans left are planning on taking a rocket to Alpha Centauri IV…with androids working the ship while the humans remain in suspended animation. But there is no room for additional passengers so the team has one option…rebuild their time machine and get back. Otherwise, they’ll be stuck on a dead planet with no food and angry mutants!

For 1964, the sets and special effects are very good. Sure, compared to “2001” (made only four years later) the effects look limp…but for its time, it was very nice. As for the story, it’s also quite strong….and I have no idea why the film only has an overall score of 5.0…it’s really a pretty good movie…quite entertaining and intelligently made.

Conundrum

American International Pictures produced this science fiction film about four time travelers to the future who wind up in a conundrum. Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, and Steve Franken are the four intrepid travelers without a TARDIS.

What they have instead is a time portal, created quite accidentally because all they wanted was a window of the future in their university laboratory. Instead they get a portal and all step into a world over a 100 years in earth’s future.

As for earth it has been ravaged by atomic war and the survivors are either these advanced scientists, savage mutants, or something in between. The scientists led by John Hoyt, Joan Woodbury and Dennis Patrick are constructing a rocket to take the survivors on a pre-set course to a new earth in the Alpha Centauri system. Will they make it before the mutants invade their citadel and how will that effect The Time Travelers?

This film will never be a classic in the genre, but it’s not too bad and does raise some interesting questions especially with the conundrum ending that it has.

At least Rod Taylor when he was time traveling had a much better machine.

Not Much

Some scientists and comic relief Steve Franken open a “time window” to 100,000 years in the future which turns out to be a door, so they go through to discover it’s gone to H.G. Wells’ Eloi vs. Morlocks…. only the Eloi are scientists getting ready to fly away to another planet, and the Morlocks are mutants. There’s some scientific bafflegab, nothing is really resolved, the comic relief is very mild, and someone plays. electronic music, but you do get to see Forrest J. Ackerman for eight seconds, so I’m sure it got a glowing review in Famous Monsters of Filmland.

The script and direction are by Ib Melchior — he should’ve done a double act with Ub Iwerks. He was the son of Lauritz Melchior, and went into the business behind the screen, working for Perry Como at one point. After he wrote the script for DEATH RACE 2000, his credits faded away. He died in 2013, aged 97.