Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

Although a low-budget film, it is quite entertaining and engaging which is a tribute to the director and the able performances of the cast.

Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Screenplay by Arthur C. Pierce
Produced by Robert Clarke
Cinematography: Meredith M. Nicholson
Edited by Jack Ruggiero
Music by Darrell Calker
Distributed by American International Pictures
Running time: 75 minutes
Budget: $125,000

Cast

Robert Clarke as Maj. William Allison
Darlene Tompkins as Princess Trirene
Arianne Arden as Capt. Markova
Vladimir Sokoloff as The Supreme
Stephen Bekassy as Gen. Karl Kruse
John van Dreelen as Dr. Bourman
Red Morgan as Captain
Ken Knox as Col. Marty Martin
Don Flournoy as Mutant
Tom Ravick as Mutant
Neil Fletcher as Air Force Chief
Jack Herman as Dr. Richman
William Shapard as Gen. York
James Altgens as Secretary Lloyd Patterson
John Loughney as Gen. Lamont
Russell Marker as Col. Curtis

Trailer

Report on March 5th 1960 ncident involving lead test pilot, US Air Force Major Bill Allison.

Sands Airbase Intelligence Division

Location: Sands Air Force Base

Context: X-80 high altitude flight preparation for space program.

Contents:

• Transcript of initial de-brief interrogation
• Transcript of tape recording by Major Allison recounting his experiences from time of test flight commencement until his return in the X-80.

Summary:
(based on Maj Ellison’s testimony)

• Upon his first landing at Sands airfield after the high altitude test, Maj Allison found the base and its surrounds to be totally desolate and devoid of any life.
• Allison had come to believe that he had broken the time barrier and had arrived in the future in the year 2024.
• Maj Allison went on to discover a subterranean world called the Citadel.
• He also learned that a plague occurred due to nuclear fallout not long after our own era.
• With the exception of two prominent citizens of the Citadel, one being designated The Supreme and the other, The Captain, everyone else, as a result of the plague was deaf, mute and sterile.
• The Supreme's granddaughter, named Princess Trirene, may not have been afflicted by sterility and had according to the major the ability to read minds.
• Allison claimed that three others in the Citadel had also like him found their way into the future, having arrived from different post-plague years.
• The major also reported that those in authority suspected hum of being a spy and and were determined to keep him there in order to procreate with the Supreme’s grand-daughter due to the sterility problem and the threat to their populations’ survival.
• Maj Allison made it his mission to return to 1960, in order to attempt to prevent the plague from occurring by convincing those in authority the truth of what he experienced.
• Maj. Allison managed to return to Sands Airbase but with significant and inexplicable physical consequences to himself, in addition to possible emotional and psychological effects that could have a bearing on the validity of his account, the transcript of which along with the original recording are contained with this report.

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