included · Mechanical

Beyond the Time Barrier

Edgar G. Ulmer · 75 minutes

In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.

Science Fiction

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

A pilot’s journey to a devastated future and effort to return with a warning frame the adventure. The future society and escape occupy much of the story, with temporal consequences most explicit at the return.

An experimental rocket aircraft carries its test pilot into Earth's future.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan27.2

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance6/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.8/10

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: 55.67 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: Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Vladimir Sokoloff, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Stephen Bekassy

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Releases & formats

5 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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