Everything works well in The Time Machine: solid acting, fair rendering of the story (Wells was one of the natural supernaturalists: the supernatural came from nature, usually a nature subverted by man), good effects, & very good music. In fact, the music here really fixes the film, right down to a riff from DeBussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (an allusion to Weena), near the end, as Filby departs the house. Sebastian Cabot appears as the resident skeptic, at least the most vocal--it's a caricature but a better one than his later Mr. French.
Review of The Time Machine
