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Tales from the Future 9 Movie Pack | 
| Actors: Mark Hamill, Raymond Massey, Paul Petersen, Lewis Stone, Bill Paxton
Studio: St Clair Vision
Category: DVD
List Price: $7.98
Buy New: $5.95
You Save: $2.03 (25%)
New (3) Used (9) Collectible (1) from $2.44
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 109624
Format: Black & White, Color, Dolby, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 758 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: STCDSC88269D
UPC: 777966882697
EAN: 0777966882697
ASIN: B0009PLLOK
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Contains: things to come metropolis the lost world frozen alive the day time ended slipstream a journey to the center of time unknown world and in the year 2889. Studio: St Clair Ent Grp Inc Release Date: 07/26/2005 Run time: 720 minutes Rating: Nr
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| Customer Reviews:
 9 Movies of Public Domain Goodness January 3, 2008
Charles J. Rector (Woodstock, IL United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tales from the Future is a collection of 9 science fiction movies that have only one thing in common: they are all public domain and as such it is possible for them to be presented in highly affordable collections. I paid $9.98 for my set and that comes down to about one dollar per movie. The way that movie tickets cost nowadays, you really cannot complain about this collection.
An added bonus of this collection is the fact that hardly any of these movies are available on other public domain collections. Additionally, there are a pair of silent movies, The Lost World & Metropolis, in this collection. Given the scarcity of good silent films on DVD, this adds to the luster of this collection. All in all, Tales from the Future is a great 9 movie collection.
Anyways, here is how I rate the movies in Tales from the Future:
Great:
The Lost World (1925)
Metropolis (1927)
Good:
Frozen Alive (1964)
Slipstream (1989)
Things to Come (1936)
Average:
The Day Time Ended (1980)
Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
Unknown World (1951)
Bad:
In the Year 2889 (1967)
 Fiction is stranger than truth June 29, 2007
Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
In the 3-DVD set, TALES FROM THE FUTURE, the three oldest films (including two silent features) are without question the best known of the lot. What's left over is obscure and deservedly so.
Fritz Lang's masterpiece, METROPOLIS, always manages to look futuristic, even 80 years after its initial release. THE LOST WORLD has primitive special effects compared to modern cinematic techniques. It does however offer us a chance to see the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself. The work of another famous British author, H.G. Wells is adapted for the screen in THINGS TO COME. The man's prescience was uncanny-- he foresaw a decade long second world war-- and turned out to be wrong only in the cataclysm's duration, and not by much.
Speaking of cataclysm-- the less said about the remainder of this collection, the better. These stinkers were near-cataclysmic career moves for Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, Paul Petersen (of the DONNA REED SHOW) and Dorothy Malone, among others.
For a much larger sample of public domain futuristic films, the SCIFI CLASSICS 50 MOVIE PACK is simply out of this world!
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The following alphabetized program list includes 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings for each title, plus country of origin (if other than USA), years of release and principal actors.
(4.0) The Day Time Ended (1980) - Jim Davis/Christopher Mitchum/Dorothy Malone
(4.6) Frozen Alive (UK/W Ger-1964) - Mark Stevens/Marianne Koch/John Longden
(2.3) In the Year 2889 (1967) - Paul Petersen/Quinn O'Hara/Charla Doherty
(3.1) Journey to the Center of Time (1967) - Scott Brady/Anthony Eisley/Gigi Perreau
(7.1) The Lost World (silent-1925) - Lewis Stone/Wallace Beery/Arthur Conan Doyle (as himself)
(8.4) Metropolis (silent-Germany-1927) - Alfred Abel/Gustav Froehlich
(4.6) Slipstream (UK-1989) - Mark Hamill/Bill Paxton/Robbie Coltrane (minor role)
(6.8) Things to Come (UK-1936) - Raymond Massey/Ralph Richardson/Cedric Hardwicke
(4.0) Unknown World (1951) - Bruce Kellogg/Marilyn Nash/George Baxter (minor role)
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