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'Wells' a Good Start for Hallmark.(Hallmark Channel to premiere miniseries 'The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells')(Brief Article)

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Date: 20010730
Author:MARTINEZ, JOSE A.

To some, the name H.G. Wells conjures up images of flying saucers and Martians invading the Earth, a la The War of the Worlds.

To others, it's Claude Rains as the demented scientist in The In visible Man, or the battles between the "Morlocks" and 'Eloi" in the distant future, an example of class warfare run amok in The Time Machine.

Each tale has held up over time, and filmmakers and television producers constantly return to this wellspring of ideas for new stories, building on what the Victorian-era writer first imagined over a century ago. Films such as Independence Day ...

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