Terror from the Year 5000 (1958)

October 30, 1958 (US) • Science Fiction, Horror • 70m

Overview

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

Director

Robert J. Gurney Jr.

Writers

Robert J. Gurney Jr., Henry Slesar

Top Billed

Ward Costello

Keywords

florida island jealousy experiment time travel swamp time machine radioactivity statuette scientist swimming dead cat mutant animal isolated house handyman isolated island peeping in-home laboratory mutant woman