Time after time

No, not the 1947 song by Sammy Cahn and Julie Styne.
This Time after time is the 1979 film starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner, and Charles Cioffi. It was written and directed by Nicholas Meyer,
and adapted from the novel by Karl Alexander.


The year is 1893, Jack the ripper, John Leslie Stevenson (Warner), is on the run from Scotland Yard. To escape imprisonment he steals his colleague, H.G Wells'(McDowell), time machine and travels to 1979, but the heated Wells is not too far behind. While chasing the ripper through the streets of San Francisco, the viewer can get a good feel of what the city must have been like at that time. Like every time travel movie, there's always something or someone that the main character must bring back with them. Wells meets Bank of England employee Amy Robbins (Steenburgen), and she is smitten by his archaic English charm. The pair try to find Stevenson, who has resumed his killings throughout the city, and escort him to the hands of justice in Victorian England.