TIME AFTER TIME (1979) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Nicholas Meyer
Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner,
Charles Cioffi, Patti D'Arbanville, Antonia Katsaros
A time-travel thriller and fantasy romance in which H.G. Wells rides his time machine into the future to track down Jack the Ripper. Meyer's more interested the fish-out-of-water time-travel stuff than the detective story - the Victorian Wells touching down in a world of McDonald's fries and motorcars and garbage disposals and the news on TV. Then Jack slips back into his old bad habits, and it's up to Wells to stop him before he can carve up Mary Steenburgen. With David Warner's name in the credits, you can guess who plays Jack the Ripper, but then, Warner did play Bob Cratchit once, and Malcolm McDowell, who plays Wells, made "A Clockwork Orange" and "Caligula", so the casting could've gone either way.
David Warner
(1941-2022)
