ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Atomic Man, 1955. An atomic scientist makes isotopes(new elements). He gets so radioactive contaminated that he can make jumps into the future only in seconds. A international company substitutes their scientist to sabotage the isotope experiments with a look-a-like. The industrial espionage plot over the making the element tungsten in a atomic reactor produces the drama. *Special Stars- Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne.*Theme- Some times atomic power is man's solution to his problems. *Trivia/location/goofs- B & W. British. Film Noir. Gene Nelson is recognizable dancer and singer. Faith Domergue is recognizable as being in several famous cult 50's science fiction films. Film's first title was 'Timeslip'. Faith Domergue was promoted to be the next Jane Russel, a brunette sex bomb. *Emotion- This film was a disappointment. It was not a science fiction piece, only an industrial espionage & murder drama. The plot gimmick of time travel is extremely underplayed and is visually crude & confusing to the film viewer. So because of that and since I'm a time travel gimmick aficionado, I would give this film very low marks. It was boring, slow, and pedestrian. Forget it.

krell-10 This film was shown in the USA as "The Atomic Man." A man is chased, shot and falls into a river. When the police pull him out, a news photographer takes a picture of him that shows a glowing halo around him. Mike Delaney, a reporter, recognizes the injured man as a renowned scientist from the United States. During an operation to remove the bullet the man dies for 7.5 seconds. He is revived, and seems to have lost his mind.When his doctor and Delaney try to question him, his answers make no sense. Finally it is realized he is answering the questions 7.5 seconds prior to their being asked. He's slipped in time. He doesn't remember much. He thinks a man named Vasco was responsible for his being shot.Delaney puts the police on the problem of the identity of the injured man. They find a man of that name alive and mostly well working in an atomic laboratory on a secret experiment. He's not completely well since he claims he was rear ended in an automobile accident which explains the bandages on his face . This statement makes Delaney suspicious so his continues investigation doggedly to the point of being fired for his efforts.In hospital an attempt to x-ray the scientist completely exposes the x-ray film. The radiologists discover he is radioactive. During his investigations Delaney is convinced that the injured man is "The Isotope Man" but is fired by his boss. His girlfriend, Rabowski, continues to help him. They find that Vasco represents a South American Tungsten company. This gives Rabowski an idea and she breaks into their offices, finds out they are to blame and is captured.In the climax of the film, Delaney rescues Rabowski, has a shootout with the villains, gains the upper hand in furious fight. He drags the villain Vasco to the research center as the experiment to create tungsten is about to be conducted. Vasco become frantic and screams to the scientists to stop the experiment. Vasco's man had placed enough plutonium in the reactor to have destroyed half of London in an atomic blast. Fortunately this was detected and London was spared.This film is more an industrial espionage adventure than a pure science fiction film. The issue of the scientist having slipped in time due to his death is certainly an exciting plot device.This is an enjoyable film even now if you can make allowances for the period of time during which it was made. I saw it first in 1956 and was impressed enough to look this film up recently. It was a lot more frightening when I was 7 years old watching it in an all night drive-in.

Chris Gaskin Timeslip is also known as The Atomic Man, which I shall use for this review and is the title on the VHS copy I have (NTSC).An assumed dead man is recovered from the Thames with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. This man turns out to be a top nuclear scientist and he also has a double who us trying to stop his experiments in artificial tungsten. He isn't dead after all. The radioactivity has caused him to be 7 and a half seconds ahead of everybody else, so he answers questions before there are asked. He double is caught at the end, as are some gangsters also involved in the plot.This is more a gangster movie than a sci-fi, but that certainly didn't spoil my enjoyment.The cast includes 1950's sci-fi regular Faith Domergue (This Island Earth, It Came From Beneath the Sea), Gene Nelson, Peter Arne and Leonard Williams.The Atomic Man is worth checking out. Quite good.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

jim riecken (youroldpaljim) The science fiction gimmick in this "B" British mystery is a man who after his highly radioactive body is fished out of the Thames, comes to life. After he awakes it is discovered that his brief death and exposure to radiation causes his consciousness to be 7 seconds into the future. This film soon drifts into a typical "wise cracking reporter" mystery after a reel or two and the "timeslip" gimmick is forgotten. Most of the film deals with a male and female reporter trying to prove the mysterious man is actually a famous scientist who is now being impersonated by an enemy agent. The script written by Charles Eric Maine, based on his novel, is typical of most of Maines screen/published science fiction; he comes up with an interesting science fiction gimmick and works it into a mundane plot. In this case a typical "wise cracking reporter" mystery. Another of example of this is the film THE ELECTRONIC MONSTER aka ESCAPEMENT from a script by Maine based on his published novel. An historical note; American actor Gene Nelson was dancer and singer who starred in many musicals. He was in an accident about a year before this film was made and it prevented him from dancing.