DVD
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Compare this edition’s specifications
- Release date
- Oct 29, 2013
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Single disc (1 DVD)
questionable · Unknown
Turn Back the Clock
While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
Drama, Fantasy, Comedy
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel drives much of the story. This assessment is provisional.
A borderline case: the temporal interpretation remains disputed. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Retain provisional 8/10 for the extensive depicted reliving of adult life with historical foreknowledge. The experience is explicitly dream-framed, so this is not confirmation of literal travel and the related placement remains appropriate.
The relived life ends with Joe awakening in hospital, supporting a dream reading; TCM also presents it as transport into the past, so resolve the dream-versus-literal boundary before exclusion.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan37.3
Provisional weighting
Time-travel significance8/10
low confidence
Quality consensus6.1/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 52.45 base × 71.2% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Otto Kruger, George Barbier, Peggy Shannon
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