Novelist and director Ib Melchior was a Danish immigrant who, following his service in the US counter intelligence in World War II, formed a career producing pulp fiction and b-movies in the United States. He died last year in West Hollywood, probably most famous for having conceived the original idea for Space Family Robinson in 1960, which Irwin Allen plagiarised for the conceit of Lost in Space five years later. The Time Travelers is, alongside 1959’s The Angry Red Planet, one of only two features Melchior directed, and is finally receiving a Region 2 UK DVD release having previously been available as an Italian import.
The Time Travelers is one of those vividly coloured low-budget movies that would turn up in the
from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/dvd-and-blu-ray-home-entertainment-reviews/16161-the-time-travelers
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