Yvette Mimieux, was she hot, or what?
What a great movie. I was only 14 when I first saw it at the old Lakeshore Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. Rod Taylor portrayed H.G. Wells traveling through time in this 1960 MGM academy award winning film. In the future, after some unknown “Great Catastrophe” had destroyed our civilization, the time traveler meets the beautiful Weena (an Eloi woman played by Yvette Mimieux)and, in the end, they find themselves fighting for their lives against the evil Morlocks in their underworld city below the great stone sphinx. Time travel fascinated me. What ifjust what if you really could see the future? I am convinced that the future will be the result of the choices that we make today. Most importantly, we need to be acutely aware of what the future is not going to be. Why in the world would anyone in his or her right mind bet on the factory version of what the future holds for the retail automobile industry? These people collectively have a record for screw-ups that defies rational thought.
