Time After Time

In 'Time After Time', H.G. Wells constructs a time machine which is stolen by Jack the Ripper. When the notorious killer escapes to the future, Wells follows him to 20th Century San Francisco, trying to bring him to justice.

• David Warner was not the first choice to play Jack the Ripper.
• The time machine prop was later used in 'Gremlins' (1984).
• Director Nicholas Meyer's feature film debut.
• Star Trek's 'First Contact' was inspired by this movie.
• Meyer wrote the screenplay in only six weeks.

• I'm not a criminal. I'm... a tourist.
• Every age is the same. It's only love that makes any of them bearable.
• We don't belong here? On the contrary, Herbert. I belong here completely and utterly.
• You have to be homesick for the future.
• I have returned... to the future.