Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
1h 30m
Running Time
March 13, 1972Release Date
Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
1h 30m
Running Time
March 13, 1972Release Date
Plot.
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of 'Kurt Vonnegut Jr.', including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, 'Harrison Bergeron', and 'Happy Birthday, Wanda June'
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Cast & Crew.
'Cousin Brucie' Morrow
Contest Announcer
Dortha Duckworth
Mrs. Stevenson
William Hickey
Stony Stevenson
Bob Elliott
Bud Williams, Jr.
Ray Goulding
Walter Gesundheit
Franklin Cover
Col. Donald 'Tex' Pirandello
Fred Barzyk
Director
David R. Loxton
Writer
Russell Morash
Sandy Abernathy
David Odell
Writer
John Devlin
Dr. Bobby Denton
Jay Garner
President Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Writer
Boyd Estus
Cinematographer
Kevin McCarthy
Bokonon
Dick Bartlett
Editor
Edie Lynch
Island Girl
Jerry Gershman
Sergeant
James Sloyan
Dr. Paul Proteus
John Q. Adams
Music Consultant
Details.
Wiki.
Between Time and Timbuktu is a television film directed by Fred Barzyk and based on a number of works by Kurt Vonnegut. Produced by National Educational Television and WGBH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, it was telecast March 13, 1972 as a NET Playhouse special. The television script was also published in book form in 1972, illustrated with photographs by Jill Krementz and stills from the production.
The first draft of the script was written by David Odell, with contributions from Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, and the film's director. Vonnegut himself served as an "advisor and contributor to the script." The primary title refers to a collection of poetry written by one of the main characters in Vonnegut's second novel, The Sirens of Titan.