It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

HG Well's novel breathtakingly translated into an academy award winning film. Taylor is the scientist whose ingenious machine whisks him to the year 802701 where he encourages the peace-loving Elois to rise up against the subterranean Morlocks. Superior classic sci-fi. find out more...