At the Chartered Bank of London, he meets employee Amy Robbins, who says she had directed Stevenson to a local hotel, the Hyatt Regency and being smitten with Herbert, also gives him her card saying that he should “give her a ring”.Ĭonfronted at the hotel by his one-time friend Herbert, Stevenson confesses that he finds modern society to be pleasingly violent, stating: "Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Reasoning that Stevenson would also need to exchange his British money, Herbert asks about him at various banks. Wells is also perplexed and equally impressed by the construction of the table. Growing hungry after a day without food, he enters a McDonald's and is alternately puzzled and pleased with 1979 dining options, noting the similarity between 1890s pommes frites from France and modern French fries. He is deeply shocked by the future, having expected it to be an enlightened socialist utopia, only to find chaos in the form of airplanes, automobiles and a worldwide history of war, crime and bloodshed.Īt a bank, Herbert exchanges some British bank notes for present-day American money. Herbert uses it to pursue Stevenson to November 5, 1979, where the machine has ended up on display at a museum in San Francisco. Stevenson has escaped to the future, but because he does not have the "non-return" key, the machine automatically returns to 1893.
Wells races to his laboratory, but the time machine is gone. A bag with blood-stained gloves belonging to one of Herbert's friends, a surgeon named John Leslie Stevenson, leads them to conclude that Stevenson might be the infamous killer.
After he explains how it works (including a "non-return key" that keeps the machine at the traveler's destination and a "vaporizing equalizer" that keeps the traveler and machine on equal terms), police constables arrive at the house searching for Jack the Ripper. In 1893 London, popular writer Herbert George Wells displays a time machine to his skeptical dinner guests. Wells uses his time machine to pursue Jack the Ripper into the 20th century.
The film presents a story in which British author H. Filmed in Panavision, it was the directing debut of Meyer, whose screenplay is based on the premise from Karl Alexander's novel Time After Time (which was unfinished at the time) and a story by Alexander and Steve Hayes. Time After Time is a 1979 American science fiction film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen.
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