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The Atomic Man (1955)
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included · Nonlinear temporal perception
Timeslip
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.
Science Fiction
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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 Nonlinear temporal perception.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
A scientist living seven and a half seconds ahead supplies the distinctive mystery and investigative clues. The surrounding espionage story gives the temporal anomaly less sustained exploration than a full time-travel adventure.
Radiation places a scientist several seconds ahead of ordinary time, giving him displaced temporal experience.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan21.3
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: 43.66 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: Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Donald Gray
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DVD
The Atomic Man (1955)
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- Release date
- Apr 07, 2010
- Studio
- Sinister Cinema
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Single disc (1 DVD-R5)