George Pal (1908–1980)
Author of The Time Machine [1960 film]
About the Author
Image credit: Photo by Alan Light, 1979 (Cropped ~ Wikimeda & Flickr)
Series
Works by George Pal
John Henry and the Inky-Poo [1946 short film] (1946) — Director; Prorducer; Cinematographer — 2 copies
Associated Works
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Pal, George
- Other names
- Marczincsak, György Pál (birth)
Marczincsak, Julius György - Birthdate
- 1908-02-01
- Date of death
- 1980-05-02
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
- Occupations
- film director
film producer - Awards and honors
- Winsor McCay Award (1976)
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Birthplace
- Cegléd, Hungary
- Places of residence
- Berlin, Germany
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Los Angeles, California, USA - Place of death
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
- Burial location
- Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, USA
Members
Reviews
First rate adaption of H.G. Wells classic story, well acted and absorbing. Special effects are of the time but convincing nonetheless.
2023 movie #89. 1975. Oh, boy was this terrible, entertaining but terribleness. It takes place in the 1930's. Doc and his gang go to South America to investigate his father's death. They meet the 'green death', electric green flying snakes. And Doc gets his shirt torn to shreads.
A Victorian inventor travels to the distant future.
I didn't expect much, and I didn't get much. The book is not particularly suited to being a movie, and despite all of their changes to the story, they didn't do a single thing to address that problem. And the few things that the movie should have been able to have in its favor - adventure, suspense, and a sense of wonder - are absent.
Concept: C
Story: D
Characters: D
Dialog: C
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: C
Music: show more C
Enjoyment: C
GPA: 1.8/4 show less
I didn't expect much, and I didn't get much. The book is not particularly suited to being a movie, and despite all of their changes to the story, they didn't do a single thing to address that problem. And the few things that the movie should have been able to have in its favor - adventure, suspense, and a sense of wonder - are absent.
Concept: C
Story: D
Characters: D
Dialog: C
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: C
Acting: C
Music: show more C
Enjoyment: C
GPA: 1.8/4 show less
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Statistics
- Works
- 25
- Also by
- 10
- Members
- 338
- Popularity
- #70,453
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 22