Majorthebys
Charming and brutal
FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Edwin
The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
bkoganbing
Scott Brady is the star and villain of Journey To The Center Of Time, a rather cheaply made science fiction work that compromised mostly of one set and a bunch movie clips to show the past and future on planet earth. Brady is a rich industrialist who wants to shut down an experimental lab where scientists Anthony Eisley, Gigi Perreau, and Abraham Sofaer are working on time experiments. Brady thinks the experiments are a waste of time and his money.So imagine when things go a bit haywire and Brady finds himself on a rapid journey to our distant past and distant future with the others.This independent film was apparently something none of the major studios would touch. The usual time travel conundrums are here and the players give rather dispirited performances like they were anxious their salary checks wouldn't clear.Not the best of the genre, not even close.
dan-1315
As I understand it, Ib Melchior and Dave Hewitt had a falling out over 1964's The Time Travelers. Both are credited with coming up with the story, but Hewitt left the production and Melchior wrote the screenplay and directed this little sci-fi B-film classic himself. Hewitt wrote his own version of the movie and later directed it as 1967's Journey to the Center of Time, making just a slightly different version. I can't remember ever seeing what is essentially a remake arrive just three years after the first movie's release. But then again, both films were grist for drive-ins where few people probably noticed the similarities. These movies had me scratching my head wondering if I had seen it before on TV where, after repeated viewings, I was able to make the connection between the two films.
remb
I really liked two unique gimmicks of this movie.First, when they are traveling back in time, they discover they are on a collision course with another ship traveling forward in time. They try to hail the other ship, but it never responds. Finally when collision seems unavoidable and immediate, they fire on the other ship, destroying it. Later they suffer damage so they can't transmit, and then as they are traveling forward in time they discover they are on a collision course with another ship traveling backward in time, and on radio from the other ship they hear their own voices warning them, but with the radio out they can't respond. A perfectly consistent causality loop, well staged!! Near the end of the movie, the controls are damaged, and suddenly they go back into their own time, repeating the time-travel part of the movie at high speed. This is actually the part that I remembered fondly from when I was a kid, and yearned to see the whole movie again, but didn't know the name, until by chance I caught it on TV a few years ago and recognized it as that old lost movie, and this time I was prudent to learn the name of the movie!! I think the movie was totally hokey, but really nice, fun, unique, original, well worth watching if you like to see sci-fi that isn't just a clone of the standard themes of sci-fi. One of my two favorite sci-fi TV series was Blake's Seven, for the same reason, the Federation is *bad* not good, and the totally cheap special effects are exactly right every time, and unlike most such series, the end is **different** (I won't spoil it for you).
classicsoncall
It's hard to believe that movies as bad as this were being made as late as 1967. It's about as technologically advanced as any "B" grade film from the '40's, but done in color. However the garish orange of the lab setting and time capsule is so bright it will make you grab for a pair of sunglasses. So much for the high points."Journey to the Center of Time" would be an embarrassment for a fledgling film student, that it was made at all with real money is to be questioned as much as the film's star Scott Brady questions his company's funding of research in the science of time travel. For two years, Doc Gordon (Abraham Sofaer), Mark Manning (Anthony Eisley) and Karen White (Gigi Perreau) have only managed to navigate twenty four hours into the past. That's all about to change, as the trio, along with owner Stanton (Brady) kick start their time travel gizmo five thousand years into the future for a rendezvous with aspiring screen star Poupee Gamin, surely you recognize her name. One of her futuristic aides is Lyle Waggoner, who fortunately managed to survive this mess to earn a spot on the Carol Burnett Show and later, "Wonder Woman".The time lab can best be compared to a time travel boomerang; from the future the gang whips back to one million years B.C. to pick a nice round number, where the greedy Stanton grabs a jewel and takes off in the lab once again, stranding Manning and White in the past. In a series of frenetic flashbacks and flash forwards, the entire movie is relived for those of you who dozed off the first time.Getting beyond the embarrassment, you can have a fun time with this one as long as it's with a bunch of friends and the right mix of refreshments. The film can be enjoyed on many levels; I know because it made as much sense played in reverse as it did played forward.
