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Childhood memories

posted 18 years ago by MrPie7
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I saw this film in the movies at a saturday matinee. It must have been not long after it was released in '64. I remember that the mutants scared me and I was a little bemused by the ending-but I know it wasn't good....for the folks in the movie, anyway. This IMDB entry looks so forlone....not even a poster or a photo from the film. I thought I would post here as a little payback for the pleasure this film gave me. I once saw the last 20 seconds on TV. BLAST!@!! There is another film similar in plot much much inferior film 1956 "World Without End" starring Rod Taylor and Hugh Marlow (What a drop for him after doing "All About Eve" "12 O'Clock High" and the SCI FI Classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still). It's a Shame that "WWE" has been picked-up by Encore Network and is seen fairly often. "TTT" is NEVER seen. Once, after never having seen "WWE" I thought that I wasa watching "TTT". What a disapointment!

[–] contradad 18 years ago

This is a great, imaginative film that deserves a DVD release. It's one of those films you never forget (especially the ending)

[–] gallileo60 17 years ago

I saw this movie on a Saturday Mourning show called "Science Fiction Theater" in the late 60's, early 70's, and it just creeped me out as a kid....I wish I could remember it better, or even see it again....Anyone remember Science Fiction Theater?

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[–] copper1963 17 years ago

Absolutely. SFT was on channel 9 in NYC, right after roller derby. Channel 5 had Creature Feature and later, in the evening, channel 11 (WPIX) had Chiller Thriller. Those were the days. We had fewer channels to choose from, but there was always something good to watch. Interestingly enough, The Time Travelers was remade a few years later as Journey to the Center of the Time. It's not bad.

[–] Blu765 15 years ago

Channel 11 in Pittsburgh had "Chiller Theater" every Saturday night from the 1960s to the 1980s, hosted by "Chilly Billy" aka Bill Cardille (who was also channel 11's announcer).

I remember Chilly Billy would often show "The Time Travelers". And, yes -- I too remember this film mostly because of the ending.

A bit of trivia about Bill Cardille...he was in George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" -- both the original 1968 version and Romero's 1990 remake.

[–] LarrupinLou 8 years ago

Absolutely. SFT was on channel 9 in NYC, right after roller derby.

I remember watching it on Saturday afternoons during the early '70s. In fact, the first time I heard the words "science fiction" was on that program (I was age 5).

Channel 5 had Creature Feature and later, in the evening, channel 11 (WPIX) had Chiller Thriller. Those were the days. We had fewer channels to choose from, but there was always something good to watch.

I believe the kid of today has it better than us in a lot of ways, but the one thing that was better then was being "forced" to watch something you wouldn't normally look at. As you pointed out, the limited number of viewing opportunities (even living in the NYC area) would push you to shows or films you might not have been interested initially. Of course, sci-fi/horror films were always something I wanted to see. 😃

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[–] KiwiENG 15 years ago

I saw this movie when I was 8 years old about 1964 in a double feature with "Pyro" (or "Fuego", 1964) It creeped me out too but Pyro was far worst!

It took a bit of research to identify these two films from vague memories but now that I have them on DVD I can get a bit of closure.

Paul

[–] Thirdover4 15 years ago

The Liberty Theater in Libertyville, IL used to have weekend matinées in the early 1970s in which they showed a lot of science fiction films from the 50's and 60's. This was one of maybe a 100 such SF films I saw in the theater as a kid and it is one of the ones I remember very strongly. The mutants and the robots and the ending.

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