Running Against Time

Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time

Cast

Robert Hays

as David Rhodes

Catherine Hicks

as Laura Whittaker

Sam Wanamaker

as Doctor Koopman

Wayne Tippit

as FBI Agent Landry

James DiStefano

as Lee Harvey Oswald

Paul Scherrer

as Chris Rhodes

Reviews

SmarterLabels

This is a rather underestimated time travel movie, based on trying to alter history by preventing the assassination of JFK. It is notable for the era in that it spins quite an entertaining tale of the logical complications of doing so. To my mind it hits just the right level of prominence for the ...

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