Wallace Bennett

writer, creator
Feature Film

The Time Machine

For me, the update to the 1970s took this made-for-TV movie too far away from the original novel. For example, the Traveller (now a rocket scientist called Neil Perry) explains the workings of the machine with gibberish, whereas the original Traveller expressed himself with up-to-date mathematical terminology. The travel to the Salem witch trials and the California gold rush were also off the mark, as was the dreamy Weena who immediately speaks English. —Michael Main
Well, in principle, it utilizes a electromagnetic force field to molecularly reconstruct the space-time continuum.
John Beck (as the traveler) and Priscilla Barnes (as Weena) appear behind a triangular, metal time machine.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

The Philadelphia Experiment I

The Philadelphia Experiment

Seaman David Herdeg and his pal are thrown from 1943 to 1984 during a naval experiment gone awry, and in that future, David is the only one who can save a missing town (provided he can dodge enough bullets and perhaps win the heart of Allison Hayes). —Michael Main
Navy owes me 40 years back pay.
Michael Paré and Nancy Allen race out of a projected landscape into the bright lights of a crawling tank.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

The Philadelphia Experiment II

Philadelphia Experiment II

At the end of the first movie, David Herdeg was left in 1983 America; ten years later, another experiment sends a nuclear bomb to 1943 Germany and David must go back to stop it from creating a Nazi-ruled world. —Michael Main
That plane got sucked back there. Landed in the heart of Nazi Germany.
A giant yellow, pink, and green face peers through a hole onto abstract, futuristic machinery.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel