Time After Time

Malcolm McDowell plays HG Wells, whose time machine is used by murderous Victorian Jack the Ripper to escape to 70s San Francisco. Wells follows him to the hilly city, and is surprised to find that modern life presents a fruitful hunting ground for the Ripper., When Jack the Ripper steals his time machine, author H.G. Wells travels to modern-day San Francisco to track him down., Wells has just invented a time machine but hasn’t tried it out yet. When one of his friend’s is found to be Jack the Ripper, Jack makes his escape using the time machine., Nicholas Meyer’s witty and inventive sci-fi thriller starring Malcolm McDowell as H G Wells who, when Jack the Ripper, played by David Warner, steals his Time Machine in 1893 and uses it to escape to the future, follows him to 1979 San Francisco to bring him to book., Writer-director Nicholas Meyer time-warps H.G. Wells from 1893 to 1979 in pursuit of Jack the Ripper., H.G. Wells travels from 1893 London to 1979 San Francisco in pursuit of Jack the Ripper, who has stolen his time-machine invention and continued his murderous ways into the future., This science-fiction fantasy supposes that H.G. Wells actually constructed a time machine — which then fell into the hands of Jack the Ripper. The Ripper travels forward in time to 1979, forcing Wells to follow in an attempt to prevent the murderer from continuing his rampage in a new century.