questionable · Unknown
A Connecticut Yankee
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
Romance, Comedy, Fantasy
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration. 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 6/10. Hank is knocked out by a falling suit of armour and wakes in sixth-century England, returning at the end by a similar timeslip. The doubled cast and debated framing leave open whether this is real travel or a dream.
The Arthurian journey follows a head injury, but contemporary review identifies the adventure as a dream; literal temporal displacement is not established.
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The scores
Provisional weighting
medium confidence
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: 51.85 base × 48.8% 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: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Brandon Hurst
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Releases & formats
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