Time After Time (1979 movie)
Time After Time is an American film produced by Warner Brothers in 1979, starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, and Charles Cioffi. It was written and directed by Nicholas Meyer. Color, 112 minutes.The movie tells of how science fiction author H.G. Wells (McDowell) builds a time machine in 1893 London, the same one Wells fictionalized in his novel The Time Machine. Before he is able to test the machine, a physician friend of his (Warner) is discovered to be Jack the Ripper and steals the machine to escape capture by going to 1979 San Francisco. Wells pursues, where he meets and falls in love with bank employee Amy Robbins (Steenburgen). The duo try to stop the Ripper, who has resumed his killings. Jack finds modern American society to be pleasingly bloody; he remarks at one point that in 1893 Britain he was a monster, but in 1979 America he is an amateur.
McDowell and Steenburgen married after working together on the film.