Sci-Fi Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

BudBrewster

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Click on the poster and watch Beyond the Time Barrier on Veoh!

This movie is a low-budget production, but it’s a joy to watch. Unfortunately there’s still no high-quality DVD availabe. I’ve purchased several of the gray market copies over the years before finally getting one that was reasonably good, but it’s still not a great copy.

This DVD, the one I now have, looks like a real bargain – with four enjoyable movies for the low-low price of only $5.00. But three of the movies have a very dark picture. Thankfully, Beyond the Time Barrier is the one that looks okay.

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Filmed in a matter of weeks, director Edgar G. Ulmer saved money on sets by using an exhibit of futuristic art-and-design at the 1959 Texas State Fair in Dallas. The interior architecture is very appealing. The doors, walls, and pillars are all based on triangles and pyramids.

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Don't expect any elaborate special effects, but the film does manage to invoke a pleasant Buck Rogers atmosphere. There’s a great panning shot that starts on the ruins of a city –– (Click to see a 927px × 699px version. On Photobucket, click on the magnifying glass icon).



– and moves over to reveal this city of the future! (Click to see a 1,024px × 599px version. On Photobucket, click on the magnifying glass icon.)



I had fun splicing the two shots of the pan together to make this composite. (Click to see a 1,024px × 385px version. On Photobucket, click on the magnifying glass icon).



Shortly after that, we see these amazing shots of the same city with blinding lights on tall towers. (Click to see a 925px × 705px version. On Photobucket, click on the magnifying glass icon). ).



Later, we’re treated to a high speed elevator zipping down a deep shaft reminiscent of the Krell machine. (Click to see a 987px × 746px version. On Photobucket, click on the magnifying glass icon.)



Robert Clark does a great job as a test pilot whose experimental aircraft is catapulted several hundred years into the future –

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– where he finds a world recovering from a global plague which left most of it’s inhabitants mute and sterile – incapable of speech and unable to have children. They’re suspicious on Clark and slap him in a glass tube to neutralize the radiation he picked up while walking to the city from the airfield where he landed his plane.

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Darlene Tompkins is absolutely gorgeous as the sweet heroine that Clark falls in love with. Her grandfather wants her to mate with him, because most of the men are sterile.

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The women’s costumes will meet with male approval; they all wear short dresses and high heels. The mind boggles at the thought of a society in which the girls dress like this – and yet they aren’t able to get pregnant, and they aren't able to speak! That's an interesting combination . . .

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And the posters for this movie are the most beautiful ever made for a science fiction movie – ever!


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