Travelling through time via auto-suggestion appeared in Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) which told the story of an engineer who, after a blow to the head, goes back to sixth-century England. The heart of the film is a love story in which playwright Richard Collier (Reeve) is transported, through self-hypnosis, back to 1912, where he meets and falls in love with stage actress Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour) but is finally forced back to his own time, leaving her behind. Joe Dolce writes on film and television in every Quadrant. Add to this the intertwined themes of aching musical motifs: Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and John Barry’s Somewhere in Time theme. Somewhere in Time is a romantic drama that addresses eternal love, grief and loss. The screenplay was by Richard Matheson, from his book Bid Time Return, and the haunting score was created by John Barry, the composer for eleven James Bond films. It was Reeve’s favourite of all his movies. The first film that the late Christopher Reeve made, after his breakthrough role as Superman (1978), was Somewhere in Time (1980), directed by Jeannot Szwarc.
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