Malcolm McDowell
recently watchedTime After Timeon Netflix streaming. It’s a late-70s sci-fi movie whereH.G. Wells hunts down Jack the Ripper in present-day San Francisco… via time machine!It’s an absurdly goofy little flick.
But it’s got heart. And terribly dated special FX. It stars Malcolm McDowell [5-foot-8] as Wells and David Warner [6-foot-2] as the Ripper. The height difference is extremely noticeable in their scenes together. That’s how I realized McDowell is pretty short for a leading man, and therefore a candidate for A Concise Men’s Lookbook.
I love the tweed… but the steam-punk-Victorian-man-in-1970s-SF look is so over. And while he wears some pretty fashion-forward threads in A Clockwork Orange… they’re still too, uh, fashion-forward today. So for this week’s entry, let’s travel back in time — to his big-screen debut:
Set the chronometer to 1968: Malcolm McDowell in If…