THE ATOMIC MAN (a.k.a. TIMESLIP) (1956) (film review by Evelyn C. Leeper)

[Philip De Parto]

The following review is reprinted with permission from:

THE MT VOID
01/02/26 -- Vol. 44, No. 27, Whole Number 2413

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 THE ATOMIC MAN (a.k.a. TIMESLIP) (1956) (film review by Evelyn C. Leeper)

In THE ATOMIC MAN the
gimmick is that someone has somehow been shifted seven seconds
forward in time, so he answers questions before they are asked.
(There's a whole MacGuffin about the transmutation of elements and
industrial espionage, but no one watches the film for that.)

One can quibble about what answering questions before they are
asked implies that there is no such thing as free will--what if
you just didn't ask the question the person just answered. In
fact, this problem arises with almost all sorts of time travel
into the past.

And this is not the first use of this idea: Isaac Asimov used it
in "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline".

Released theatrically 04 March 1956; currently streaming on Mometu.

Film Credits:
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048964/reference>

What others are saying:
<https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/atomic_man>