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This early Merton Park production is no relation to the children's TV sci-fi adventure of the same name made fifteen years later. The sci-fi component is novel but ends up taking a back seat to a conventional Cold War thriller about saboteurs, atmospherically photographed by A. T. Dinsdale and briskly directed by Ken Hughes, soon to graduate to 'A' features.

Gene Nelson makes a whimsical hero, while Faith Domergue, newly returned from Metaluna, is here buttoned up in an overcoat against the London cold. Also in an overcoat, plus a trilby, rather than playing one of the scientists Joseph Tomelty is here unusually cast as the inspector following the case.

What a surprise this british science fiction thriller from a non sci-fi specialist. Ken Hughes was not Val Guest nor Terence Fisher in that domain. The idea is pretty good, pretty exciting, but the treatment is a bit ankward, talkative, something is a bit wrong but it's OK. It remains a worth watching UK science fiction thriller, that also would have perfectly fit to Byyron Haskin. Faith Domergue is rather wooden in this feature where she doesn't seem to be that concerned, as also were those US actors and actresses who worked overseas, in UK, with movies precisely directed by the likes of Fisher, Guest or Hughes.

Great little British SF paranoia film featuring the wonderful Faith Domergue (This Island Earth) and a plot that really does hold up well. Having said that a lot of the acting and sets don't stand the test of time and the script is a bit dodgy. It does look like there is a brief appearance by Charles Hawtry part way through. Fun film.

A wounded atomic scientist is found to be 7 1/2 seconds ahead of time and has a radioactive halo about his body that can only be seen in photographs. Unfortunately, it is more of a cops, robbers and gangsters picture with a scientific twist than a true sci fi picture. It is intriguing at first, but it fails to live up to its promise, although it does eventually explain the time slip. However, the acting is solid and the subplots are fine but the film misses the mark overall.

When nuclear scientist, Dr. Stephen Rayner (Peter Arne) seems to return from the dead after being murdered, the mystery begins. Reporter, Mike Delaney (Gene Nelson) and his photographer girlfriend, Jill Robowski (Faith Domergue) are on the case.

THE ATOMIC MAN is one of the lesser-known of the 1950s sci-fi films. As such, it has a nice Cold War / espionage angle to it. It also has Dr. Rayner suffering from a rather novel side effect of his inexplicable resurrection. This doesn't emerge until after the halfway mark.

Mr. Nelson and Ms. Domergue play their roles in similar fashion to those fast-talking reporters from the 1930s-40s, complete with unhelpful cops and a screaming boss!

Not a bad movie for a Saturday afternoon...