The Atomic Man (1955)

The Atomic Man (1955)

Year: 1955

IMDb Rating: 5.6/10

Genres: Sci-Fi

Directors: Ken Hughes

Cast: Joseph Tomelty, Faith Domergue, Gene Nelson

An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.

Timeslip (U.S. title The Atomic Man) is a 1955 British black-and-white science fiction film directed by Ken Hughes and starring Gene Nelson and Faith Domergue. Produced by Alec C. Snowden, it was written by Charles Eric Maine. In the UK, the film was distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated. In 1956 the film was shortened from 93 minutes to 76 minutes and distributed in the U.S. by Allied Artists Pictures in some areas as a double feature with Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

A man is fished out of a river and taken to a hospital where he briefly dies. After he revives, it's discovered that he is a nuclear research scientist, has been contaminated with radioactive material, and is oddly uncommunicative. A reporter investigates, and with the help of the scientist's doctor and the police, uncovers a plot to destroy the scientist's work as well as part of London. Stars: Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Joseph Tomelty, Donald Gray, Vic Perry, Paul Hardtmuth, Martin Wyldeck, and Peter Arne IMDb Page The movie contains a 1955 copyright notice. This copyright was not renewed.

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