The Road to Yesterday

by Jeanie MacPherson, Beulah Marie Dix, and Howard Hawks, directed by Cecille B. DeMille

Release: 15 November 1925
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Fantasy
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Bickering newlyweds Kenneth and Malena Paulton are thrown back to previous lives in Elizabethan England where they are a knight and a gypsy. The film is loosely based on the earlier play of the same name by Dix and Sutherland.

Safety note: Do not attempt this movie’s method of creating a timeslip—via a fiery train crash—at home.

— Michael Main

I know I love you, Ken! But today—during the marriage service—something seemed to reach out of the Past that made me—afraid!

DEBUT

The Road to Yesterday (at movie theaters, USA, 15 November 1925).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS: based on The Road to Yesterday by Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland (1906)

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Time Travel Methods

Timeslips

Real-World Tags

Elizabethan England

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY: We haven’t yet mapped out the time travel itinerary.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Although he isn’t credited in the film, future director <a href='Persons-2325'>Howard Hawks</a> is listed at <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Road_to_Yesterday'>Wikipedia</a> as the title writer (i.e., the creator of the intertitle cards with dialogue and descriptive text).