The Time Travelers *** (1964, Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt, Joan Woodbury, Steve Franken) – Classic Movie Review 12,705

Ib Melchior’s 1964 film The Time Travelers is a thoughtful and often exciting sci-fi movie, in which Dr Erik von Steiner (Preston Foster), Dr Steve Connors (Philip Carey) and Carol White (Merry Anders) travel ahead 107 years through time.

Writer/ director Ib Melchior’s 1964 film The Time Travelers [The Time Travellers] is a thoughtful and often exciting sci-fi picture, in which Dr Erik von Steiner (Preston Foster) and his helpers, Dr Steve Connors (Philip Carey) and Carol White (Merry Anders), travel ahead 107 years through time and meet a world destroyed by nuclear war.

The humans there battle mutants and put bald, noseless androids to work on a spacecraft to whiz them to another planet, while the scientists try to escape back through time.

It is notable as a very early outing for ace cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond.

Also in the cast are John Hoyt, Joan Woodbury, Steve Franken, Dennis Patrick, Delores Wells (Playboy’s Miss June 1960), Berry Kroeger, Gloria Leslie, Mollie Glessing, Peter Strudwick, J Edward McKinley, and Margaret Selden. Also Forrest J Ackerman, American magazine editor, sci-fi writer, literary agent, and founder of sci-fi fandom, has a bit part.

Melchior’s screenplay is based on a story by David L Hewitt.

It was released on October 29, 1964 by American International Pictures in a double bill with Atragon.

The film was remade in 1967 as Journey to the Center of Time and inspired the 1966 TV series The Time Tunnel.

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