MartinHafer With a title like "The Atomic Man" and it being in the public domain, I sure had my doubts about this one. You'd think, being made in the 1950s that it was some sort of space monster film or perhaps a film about communism--but it isn't. It's actually a very well written and taut sc-fi mystery--with a strong emphasis on mystery. And, it's very much worth your time.The film begins with a guy being left for dead--and thrown in the river. He's rescued and on the brink of death--and the doctors expect to lose him...which they do TEMPORARILY. While they are operating on him, his heart stops and they give up the surgery--and suddenly, he spontaneously begins breathing and begins a slow recovery! When he awakens, he's an oddity. He looks like a famous scientist--but the scientist is accounted for and is certainly NOT near death. And, he talks strangely...very strangely. How does all this fit into the total picture--that's the mystery. To try to sort all this out is a pushy reporter--the sort of guy who was almost a cliché in the 1930s in films. Yet, somehow Gene Nelson manages to make it work--along with his girlfriend (Faith Domergue).Now that I mentioned Nelson and Domergue, that brings up the production itself. Despite these two American actors in the major roles, the rest of the film is very British--made by Brits, filmed in Britain and with British extras. The reason was that in the 1950s and 60, many European film companies brought in Americans to star in their films--figuring it would help box office appeal (especially in the States). Well, in this case it sure worked well because the plot was intelligent, well written and a nice production all around--so nice, I was very tempted to give this little film a 9! My advice is to download (for free and perfectly legal) the film from archive.org--a site often linked to film listings on IMDb or from Amazon (which IS linked to IMDb). Well worth your time and full of wonderful suspense--especially at the end.

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.

mike1964 I had read the reviews for The Atomic Man and to be honest didn't make me want to see this movie. I always had this movie very low on my want list and recently purchased a copy from Sinister Cinema. Wow! What a mistake I had made over the years. I really enjoyed this movie.Plot concerns a nuclear scientist, Dr. Raynor, (Peter Arne) who is shot at the opening of the film and dumped in the river. He is found without identification and taken to the hospital. He is not expected to make it, but miraculously pulls through surgery even after "dying" for 7.5 seconds. A newspaper man (Gene Nelson) suspects the recovering man to be Dr. Raynor from a glow in a photograph. When he investigates another man (also Arne) is at the Research Center. Movie goes on a while while the characters try to determine who the man in the hospital is. We find out that a man named Vasquo (Vic Perry) is behind the whole matter. He had Raynor shot and had a plastic surgeon prepare the fake Raynor for the purpose of blowing up Raynor's experiment. While the real Raynor is recovering, we discover he is 7.5 seconds into the future (a really POOR reason is given to how this would happen and an even worse antidote. Okay, we can't always have good scientific reason in our Sci Fi movies.). In the end Vasquo and his incompetent gang are thwarted by Gene Nelson and Faith Domergue. Plot is a little thin on science fiction, but pretty fun throughout.