Starring Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Donald Gray
Directed by Ken Hughes
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A magazine reporter and his photographer girlfriend try to solve the mystery of an assault victim's identity, and discover he exactly resembles a nuclear physicist, who is however not missing.
I really enjoyed this science fiction picture from Britain, also known as The Atomic Man, adapted by Charles Eric Maine from his own novel, and starring American leads Nelson and Domergue. They play collaborators and lovers at a science magazine and have some nice interplay together. Nelson plays the familiar type of a journalist scuffling with the police for a big story while his irascible boss wants him to cover a more mundane assignment, but is nevertheless likable. The science fiction content is part of a mystery Nelson has to solve, and is well designed to culminate in a twist you probably won't see coming. Hughes keeps things moving at a swift pace, and the film is well-photographed with a good music score as well.
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