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60s Sci-Fi Movie Trailers

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Such stories as H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, and Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, have challenged mankind. So today, man is successfully probing deep into the mysteries of the universe. Can he penetrate the greatest mystery of all? Time itself.

Creative magic of George Powell, and the fabulous production of How of Metro-Bowin-Mayer, to catapult you through time into a world that is yet to be. Why is it that we usually ignore the fourth dimension?

You see, we can move in the other three. As the Doctor said, up, down, forwards, backwards, sideways. But when it comes to time, we have prisoners. In Bender Rod Taylor's breakthrough into the realm of the fourth dimension is defied by his friend, Alan Young.

If that machine can do what you see it done, destroy it, George, before it destroys you! Every moment is a year, hurtling through the atomic wars of the future, on an incredible excursion into the unknown.

What are the people like? Ah, the shape of things to come. It's lovely of at-mim you. And what happens when boy meets girl thousands of years hence? How do they wear their hair? Ooh. The women of your time?

Up like that. Show me. Is this the human race of the future? Or is this the Morlocks, fiendish creatures who live in a weird underground world? And the Eloy, the tranquil sunshine people? The mollocks dominate and maintain like cattle, luring them below with the hypnotic wail of the sirens, to feed upon in cannibalistic horror.

Ants fiction has never imagined so strange or terrifying a story as that of the village of Midwich England.

Cut off from life as we know it by some mysterious force. And later, at one at the same time, a child was born to every woman in the village. Children that grew to look like this.

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