Time After Time ( 1979 film ) - wikipedia Time After Time ( 1979 film ) Time After Time Promotional poster Directed by Nicholas Meyer Produced by Herb Jaffe Screenplay by Nicholas Meyer Story by Steve Hayes Based on Time After Time 1979 unpublished novel by Karl Alexander Starring Malcolm McDowell David Warner Mary Steenburgen Music by Miklós Rózsa Cinematography Paul Lohmann Edited by Donn Cambern Production company Warner Bros. Orion Pictures Distributed by Warner Bros. Release date September 7, 1979 Running time 112 minutes Country United States Language English Box office $13,000,000 Time After Time is a 1979 American Metrocolor science fiction film starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen filmed in Panavision. It was the directing debut of screenwriter Nicholas Meyer, whose screenplay is based on the premise from Karl Alexander 's novel of the same name ( which was unfinished at the time ) and a story by Alexander and Steve Hayes. The film concerns British author H.G. Wells and his fictional use of a time machine to pursue Jack the Ripper into the 20th century. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Reception 4.1 Critical response 4.2 Accolades 5 Television series 6 References 7 External links Plot In 1893 London, popular writer Herbert George Wells displays a time machine to his skeptical dinner guests. After he explains how it works ( including a `` non-return key '' that keeps the machine at the traveler 's destination and a `` vaporizing equalizer '' that keeps the traveler and machine on equal terms ), police constables arrive at the house searching for Jack the Ripper. A bag with blood - stained gloves belonging to one of Herbert 's friends, a surgeon named John Leslie Stevenson, leads them to conclude that Stevenson might be the infamous killer. Wells races to his laboratory, but the time machine is gone. Stevenson has escaped to the future, but because he does not have the `` non-return '' key, the machine automatically returns to 1893. Herbert uses it to pursue Stevenson to November 5, 1979, where the machine has ended up on display at a museum in San Francisco. He is deeply shocked by the future, having expected it to be an enlightened socialist utopia, only to find chaos in the form of airplanes, automobiles and a worldwide history of war, crime and bloodshed. Reasoning that Stevenson would need to exchange his British money, Herbert asks about him at various banks. At the Chartered Bank of London, he meets liberated employee Amy Robbins, who says she had directed Stevenson to the Hyatt Regency hotel. Confronted by his one - time friend Herbert, Stevenson confesses that he finds modern society to be pleasingly violent, stating : `` Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Now... I 'm an amateur. '' Herbert demands he return to 1893 to face justice, but Stevenson instead attempts to wrest the time machine 's return key from him. Their struggle is interrupted and Stevenson flees, getting hit by a car during the frantic chase. Herbert follows him to the San Francisco General Hospital emergency room and mistakenly gets the impression that Stevenson has died from his injuries. Herbert meets up with Amy Robbins again and she initiates a romance. Stevenson returns to the bank to exchange more money. Suspecting that it was Amy who had led Herbert to him, he finds out where she lives. Herbert, hoping to convince her of the truth, takes a highly skeptical Amy three days into the future. Once there, she is aghast to see a newspaper headline revealing her own murder as the Ripper 's fifth victim. Herbert persuades her that they must go back -- it is their duty to attempt to prevent the fourth victim 's murder, then prevent Amy 's. However, they are delayed upon their return to the present and can do no more than phone the police. Stevenson kills again, and Herbert is arrested because of his knowledge of the killing. Amy is left alone, totally defenseless, and at the mercy of the `` San Francisco Ripper. '' While Herbert unsuccessfully tries to convince the police of Amy 's peril, she attempts to hide from Stevenson. When the police finally do investigate her apartment, they find the dismembered body of a woman. The police release a broken - hearted Wells. However, he is contacted by Stevenson, who has actually killed Amy 's coworker and taken Amy hostage in order to extort the time machine key from Wells. Stevenson flees with the key -- and Amy as insurance -- to attempt a permanent escape in the time machine. While Herbert bargains for Amy 's life, she is able to escape. As Stevenson starts up the time machine, Herbert removes the `` vaporizing equalizer '' from it. As Herbert had explained earlier, this causes the machine to remain in place while its passenger is sent travelling endlessly through time, with no way to stop ; in effect he is destroyed. Herbert proclaims that the time has come to return to his own time, in order to destroy a machine that is he now knows is too dangerous for primitive mankind. Amy pleads with him to take her along. As they depart to the past, she says that she is changing her name to Susan B. Anthony. Cast Malcolm McDowell as Herbert George Wells David Warner as John Leslie Stevenson / Jack the Ripper Mary Steenburgen as Amy Robbins Charles Cioffi as Police Lt. Mitchell Kent Williams as assistant Patti D'Arbanville as Shirley Joseph Maher as Adams Production According to Meyer from the commentary track for the DVD and Blu - ray release of the film, the author of the novel presented Meyer with 55 pages of his unpublished novel and asked Meyer to critique his work. Meyer liked the premise and immediately optioned the story so he could write a screenplay based on the material and develop the story his own way. McDowell was attracted to the material because he was looking for something different than the sex and violence in Caligula, in which he played the title character. While preparing to portray Wells, Malcolm McDowell obtained a copy of a 78 rpm recording of Wells speaking. McDowell was `` absolutely horrified '' to hear that Wells spoke in a high - pitched, squeaky voice with a pronounced Southeast London accent, which McDowell felt would have resulted in unintentional humor if he tried to mimic it for the film. McDowell abandoned any attempt to recreate Wells 's authentic speaking style and preferred a more dignified speaking style. It was one of the last films scored by veteran composer Miklós Rózsa, who received the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Music. Time After Time was filmed throughout San Francisco, including Cow Hollow, North Beach, the Hyatt Regency hotel, California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, the Marina District, Ghirardelli Square, Fisherman 's Wharf, the Richmond District, the Golden Gate Bridge, Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill, the Embarcadero Center, Chinatown, the Marina Green, the Palace of Fine Arts, Potrero Hill, and the Civic Center. Reception Critical response Time After Time received a positive response from critics. The film holds an 86 % positive `` Fresh '' rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus, `` With the three principal actors clearly having fun with their roles, Time After Time becomes an amusing, light - hearted fantasy lark. '' Variety described the movie as `` a delightful, entertaining trifle of a film that shows both the possibilities and limitations of taking liberties with literature and history. Nicholas Meyer has deftly juxtaposed Victorian England and contemporary America in a clever story, irresistible due to the competence of its cast. '' Janet Maslin of The New York Times similarly lauded, `` Time After Time is every bit as magical as the trick around which it revolves. '' She continued : Mr. Meyer is n't a particularly skilled director ; this is his first attempt, and on occasion it 's very clumsy. But as a whizkid he 's gone straight to the head of the class, with a movie that 's as sweet as it is clever, and never so clever that it forgets to be entertaining. The satisfactions Time After Time offers are perhaps no more sophisticated than the fun one might have with an intricate set of electric trains. Still, fun of this sort is n't always easy to come by, not after one 's age has climbed up into two digits. There 's a lot to be said for an adult 's movie with the shimmer of a child 's new toy. Accolades Nicholas Meyer won the Saturn Award for Best Writing, Mary Steenburgen won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and Miklós Rózsa won the Saturn Award for Best Music. Saturn Award nominations went to Meyer for Best Director, Malcolm McDowell for Best Actor, David Warner for Supporting Actor, and Sal Anthony and Yvonne Kubis for Best Costumes, and the film was nominated for Best Science Fiction Film. Nicholas Meyer won the Antenne II Award and the Grand Prize at the Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival and he was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Television series Main article : Time After Time ( TV series ) On May 12, 2016, it was announced that the ABC television network had picked up a Time After Time television series to air in the 2016 -- 2017 television season. The series is executive produced and written by Kevin Williamson. The series was cancelled after five episodes. 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Jump up ^ Petski, Denise ( 2016 - 01 - 28 ). `` ' Time After Time ' Picked Up To Series By ABC ''. Deadline. Retrieved 2016 - 05 - 13. Jump up ^ Posted 5 : 21 pm, May 12, 2016, by Alex Welch. `` ' Still Star - Crossed, ' ' Conviction, ' ' Downward Dog, ' and more ordered to series at ABC for 2016 - 17 TV By The Numbers by zap2it.com ''. Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. Retrieved 2016 - 05 - 13. CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list ( link ) Jump up ^ `` ABC Cancels ' Time After Time ' ''. Variety. Retrieved 19 June 2017. Jump up ^ `` ABC 's `` Match Game '' to Replace `` Time After Time '' on Sunday Nights Beginning April 2 ``. The Futon Critic. March 29, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2017. External links Time After Time on IMDb Time After Time at the TCM Movie Database Time After Time at Rotten Tomatoes Time After Time at the American Film Institute Catalog Works by Nicholas Meyer Films Director Time After Time ( 1979 ) Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 ) The Day After ( 1983 ) Volunteers ( 1985 ) The Deceivers ( 1988 ) Company Business ( 1991 ) Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ) Vendetta ( 1999 ) Writer only Invasion of the Bee Girls ( 1973 ) The Night That Panicked America ( 1975 ) The Seven - Per - Cent Solution ( 1976 ) Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home ( 1984 ) Sommersby ( 1993 ) The Informant ( 1997 ) The Prince of Egypt ( 1998 ) The Human Stain ( 2003 ) Elegy ( 2008 ) The Hessen Affair ( 2009 ) Houdini ( 2014 ) Books Target Practice ( 1974 ) The Seven - Per - Cent Solution ( 1974 ) The West End Horror ( 1976 ) The Canary Trainer ( 1993 ) H.G. Wells ' The Time Machine ( 1895 ) Characters Weena Film The Time Machine ( 1960 ) The Time Machine ( 1978 ) Time After Time ( 1979 ) The Time Machine ( 2002 ) Other media Escape ( radio program ) The Rook ( comic book series ) Time After Time ( TV series ) Sequels by others The Space Machine ( 1976 ) Morlock Night ( 1979 ) Time After Time ( 1979 ) The Time Ships ( 1995 ) Related works `` The Grey Man '' `` The Chronic Argonauts '' Related articles Eloi Morlock Time Machine : The Journey Back `` Allan and the Sundered Veil '' Jack the Ripper in fiction Seminal works The Lodger Jack the Ripper : The Final Solution Letters `` Dear Boss '' letter `` From Hell '' letter `` Saucy Jacky '' postcard Film Waxworks ( 1924 ) The Lodger : A Story of the London Fog ( 1926 ) Pandora 's Box ( 1929 ) The Lodger ( 1932 ) The Lodger ( 1944 ) Man in the Attic ( 1953 ) Jack the Ripper ( 1959 ) Lulu ( 1962 ) A Study in Terror ( 1965 ) Hands of the Ripper ( 1971 ) Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde ( 1971 ) The Ruling Class ( 1972 ) What the Swedish Butler Saw ( 1975 ) Jack the Ripper ( 1976 ) Murder by Decree ( 1979 ) Time After Time ( 1979 ) Jack 's Back ( 1988 ) Edge of Sanity ( 1989 ) Deadly Advice ( 1994 ) Ripper ( 2001 ) From Hell ( 2001 ) Bad Karma ( 2002 ) Case Closed : The Phantom of Baker Street ( 2002 ) The Lodger ( 2009 ) Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days ( 2012 ) Parody Bizarre, Bizarre ( 1937 ) Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ) Music `` Jack the Ripper '' ( 1963 ) `` The Ripper '' ( 1976 ) `` Killer on the Loose '' ( 1980 ) The Somatic Defilement ( 2007 ) Stage Earth Spirit ( 1895 play ) Pandora 's Box ( 1904 play ) Lulu ( 1937 opera ) The Lodger ( 1960 opera ) The Ruling Class ( 1968 play ) Comics From Hell Blood of the Innocent Gotham by Gaslight Wonder Woman : Amazonia Martin Mystère The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III : Century Literature Sherlock Holmes The Last Sherlock Holmes Story The Whitechapel Horrors Sherlock Holmes : The Unauthorized Biography Dust and Shadow The Ripper Legacy Short stories `` A Toy for Juliette '' `` The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World '' Other A Feast Unknown Anno Dracula Blood and Fog I, Ripper Matrix A Night in the Lonesome October Jack the Ripper, Light - Hearted Friend Portrait of a Killer : Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed Time After Time Phantom Blood Night of the Ripper Darkside Lifeblood Lost The Witches of Chiswick Broken Dracula the Un-dead Television Series Jack the Ripper ( 1973 ) The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town ( 1976 ) Jack the Ripper ( 1988 ) Sanctuary ( 2007 -- 2011 ) Whitechapel ( 2009 -- 2013 ) Ripper Street ( 2012 -- present ) Time After Time ( 2017 ) Episodes `` Wolf in the Fold '' ( 1967 ) `` Comes the Inquisitor '' ( 1995 ) `` Ripper '' ( 1999 ) `` Sanctuary for All '' ( 2008 ) Other Bridge Across Time ( 1985 TV film ) Video games Jack the Ripper ( 1987 ) Ripper ( 1996 ) Duke Nukem : Zero Hour ( 1999 ) Shadow Man ( 1999 ) MediEvil 2 ( 2000 ) Jack the Ripper ( 2003 ) Mystery in London : On the Trail of Jack the Ripper ( 2007 ) Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper ( 2009 ) The Ripper ( canceled ) Jack the Ripper ( 2015 ) Other Casebook : Jack the Ripper Blood ! : The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_After_Time_(1979_film)&oldid=793117597 '' Categories : English - language films 1979 films 1970s adventure films 1970s science fiction films American adventure films American adventure thriller films American films American science fiction films Chase films Directorial debut films Films based on American novels Film scores by Miklós Rózsa Films about Jack the Ripper Films based on works by H.G. 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Question: who played jack the ripper in time after time
Answer: David Warner