irishmama34

This might have been a good idea, but the slow-paced script and unlikable characters (maybe too harsh - they're really CHARACTERS you just cannot care about at all) make this a MOVIE you can't care about at all.

We kept waiting for the story to move forward and it completely spins into a morass of self-indulgent baloney!

Rather than an interesting space or time-travel idea as suggested by the title, the story is one more boring "mid-life crisis": aging married guy trying to relive his "glory days" (which appear to have been just the usual immature high school/college party behavior - "big whoop") and you don't care about any of the people who will be affected by his "decisions." Maybe he should have done what most men do: buy an expensive sports car, get a tattoo, and take up body-building! Instead, he puts on "man jeans" and returns to the family lake house from his high school days with "professional wife" in tow for "high drama" rather than hijinx.

Too bad they didn't have the money to really explore an interesting space travel plot-line (rather than alluding to space travel with just a shot of a line of people climbing a ladder - probably in a Shopping Mall basement!?!) Actors did their best, but you just don't care about any of the characters or any of their "life choices" or their "angst" ! Big YAWN.

We all recognize Harrison Ford in this famous no credit bit part (bell boy).

Is that David Jannsen in a bit part (larger than Ford's), playing one of the uniformed police officers (he says a few lines) in the security area when Coburn's character "picks up" a prisoner? It really looks like Jannsen, but of course he doesn't have a credit that I could find. Between 1963 and 1967, Jannsen doesn't have any TV/movie credits listed on IMDb. This movie is 1966 (and before his famous Fugitive TV series), so I guess it's possible that he did some work for pay, but no credit.

Does anyone else think it's David Jannsen?

Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" is the gorgeous music to which Moira Shearer danced her lovely ballet in the first story. It's a perfect choice for this movie (and this scene) because it's full of passion and promise. The awed & inspired look on James Mason's face as he watches her dance expresses what we, the audience, see: how dancing makes Moira's character feel. It's a moving scene and there are 3 beautiful, emotional performances: Moira Sheara, James Mason, and the music.

This Rachmaninoff piece has been featured in several movies. These include, among others: The Story of Three Loves (1953); Rhapsody (1954); Somewhere in Time (1980); Dead Again (1991); Sabrina (1995); Ronin (1998).

It's a beautiful, moving, "timeless" piece of music. It is sometimes used in period movies whose action takes place before the piece was actually written & first performed. That was in 1934.

I enjoyed this movie, in spite of the uneven script. There are some great actors giving good performances (at times melodramatic - but that's the nature of the script more than their acting abilities), plus (suprise!) a young Ricky Nelson in the only thing I remember seeing him in as a boy besides the Ozzie & Harriet TV series - and he wasn't stilted like he was on his family's show (probably good directing!!!). Some great face shots throughout, too, showing emotion that the script couldn't (using the classic face-lighting techniques that have fallen out of favor with most of today's contemporary film directors).

In spite of some beautiful and memorable scenes in this movie, I'll probably remember the way the music made me feel longer than I'll remember the rest of the movie - and it's worth watching for that alone!