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The Dead Past

19650h 58m7.5/ 10 · TMDB · 2 votes
TV MovieScience Fiction

The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.

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Directed by John Gorrie

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Ansh Kapoor

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The people behind the story

George Benson
George Benson

Arnold Potterley

James Maxwell
James Maxwell

Jonas Foster

David Langton
David Langton

Thaddeus Araman

Willoughby Goddard
Willoughby Goddard

Ralph Nimmo

Sylvia Coleridge

Caroline Potterley

Shirley Cain

Miss Clements

Frances Alger

Laurel

Pat Gorman
Pat Gorman

Technician (uncredited)

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Film details

Released25 Oct 1965
Original languageEnglish
CountriesUnited Kingdom
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