Year:  1964
Rating: 5.0

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This sci-fi film dealing with time travel has some pretty interesting ideas in it but they are served on tableware so cheap that it can be somewhat distracting. And I mean cheap where everything looks like it is made out of cardboard and tinsel. But if you can overlook that this film has some entertaining bits and pieces.


Yup, we did it again. We screwed up earth in the future. That is a pretty common theme in sci-fi going back to H.G. Wells's The Time Machine. Rarely, do films show us an optimistic picture of our world going forward. That would of course make for a boring film I expect! Here there are three people who have invented a time machine on a college campus. Three people and throw in an electrician (Steve Franken) who shows up to watch and flirt with the female member (Merry Anders). While testing the device there is an explosion and they accidentally create a portal to 107 years in the future. And it doesn't look good. Nuclear war can do that.


Not too intelligently the electrician walks through the portal and disappears; so another one (Preston Foster) follows him to see where he went. Then the third guy (Philip Carey) follows the second guy and finally the girl does as well - leaving no one in the control room and sure enough the portal disappears and they are trapped in the future. Brilliant. Where they come across mutants - our children's children's children I think - a small colony of humans trying to build a rocket to another galaxy and androids who look like their rubber masks were purchased at an S&M boutique on the Sunset Strip.


There is a fair amount of silliness and a little cheesecake thrown in - all the women left on earth are pretty hot (one of them was a Playmate of the Month (Delores Wells) and deservedly so) - they do downtime in a tanning salon and have a make-out room. But in fairness, they have to repopulate the new planet where they want to go.