HG Wells, Sherlock Holmes & Jack the Ripper
So I checked my fave movie info website, IMDB. Here's the skinny:
Time after Time (1979) starred Malcolm McDowell as HG Wells, David Warner as Jack the Ripper and Mary Steenburgen as Amy Robbins. Wells succeeds in building a time machine (remember, he wrote sci-fi books) which his buddy uses to escape the police. Unbeknownst to him, he is good friends with Jack the Ripper. Oops. Well, I understand he always kind of was a little naive and befuddled. Jack travels forward in time and lands in San Francisco. HG has no choice but to follow him and bring him back, because (much like we are supposed to have flying cars) the future is Utopia, where there are no wars and no violence exists. (Apparently, HG knew that John and Yoko were coming to show us the way). Of course he is in for a rude awakening, but can he save Amy (his new GF) from Jack?
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) was a TV movie which starred Michael Pennington as Sherlock Holmes, who was (get this) cryogenically frozen by his pal, Dr. Watson. (Boy, HG should have buddied up with them - apparently they knew what the future really held!) Anyhoo, Dr. Watson's great-granddaughter, Jane, is a PI in America. She unfreezes him, and they solve a case together. OK. Forget about the fact that both Holmes and Watson are fictional characters and you can't cryogenically freeze fictional characters - if you suspend your disbelief, it was actually a fun movie, and the actor who played Holmes really carried it off, if memory serves.
So there you go, Clam.
Time after Time (1979) starred Malcolm McDowell as HG Wells, David Warner as Jack the Ripper and Mary Steenburgen as Amy Robbins. Wells succeeds in building a time machine (remember, he wrote sci-fi books) which his buddy uses to escape the police. Unbeknownst to him, he is good friends with Jack the Ripper. Oops. Well, I understand he always kind of was a little naive and befuddled. Jack travels forward in time and lands in San Francisco. HG has no choice but to follow him and bring him back, because (much like we are supposed to have flying cars) the future is Utopia, where there are no wars and no violence exists. (Apparently, HG knew that John and Yoko were coming to show us the way). Of course he is in for a rude awakening, but can he save Amy (his new GF) from Jack?
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) was a TV movie which starred Michael Pennington as Sherlock Holmes, who was (get this) cryogenically frozen by his pal, Dr. Watson. (Boy, HG should have buddied up with them - apparently they knew what the future really held!) Anyhoo, Dr. Watson's great-granddaughter, Jane, is a PI in America. She unfreezes him, and they solve a case together. OK. Forget about the fact that both Holmes and Watson are fictional characters and you can't cryogenically freeze fictional characters - if you suspend your disbelief, it was actually a fun movie, and the actor who played Holmes really carried it off, if memory serves.
So there you go, Clam.
posted by The Big Seester | 9:51 AM
1 Comments:
My memories of those movies apparently are pretty fuzzy since I apparently merged the two into a single movie in my head. I found your clarification very useful. Thank you.
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