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Terror from the Year 5000

1958 · 1h 10m · Horror, Science Fiction · United States of America

From Time Unborn… A Hideous She-Thing!

Prof. Erling and his financial backer Victor build a prototype time machine to snatch objects from the past. Latest find, a statuette, radiometrically dates to 5200 AD! When this draws colleague Richard Hedges to the island lab, Erling reveals that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life. And on the sly, Victor's been trying to get a living visitor. Does the future need help, or is the present in danger?

Written & directed by
Robert J. Gurney Jr.
Story by
Henry Slesar
Starring
Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs, John Stratton
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