i just get a copy of this one and pop it int the dvd player . i right away get the definite impression that i might very well be watch a deliberate comedy and a definite send up of scifi from the fifty . ( but then it couldn not be and since it be make in 1953 and precede most of the film i would think it satirize by several year . ) the movie be relentless in the number of stereotypical and one dimensional character it introduce ( and usually disposes of just a quickly ) and as well a the amount of pseudo scientific technobabble it chief character spout at every turn . the scientific howler come fast and furious example while radioactivity and magnetism have virtually nothing to do with each other but this movie insist on link them in a very ham fisted and unsophisticated way . then there the matter of the radiation measure device they wave around read the rather trivial level of only about 2 mr or hr or less ( it plainly say so in the on screen close up ) while the scientist act a if this be a deadly amount . i admit initially i think the movie bore a distinct resemblance to an episode of the original outer limit ( where a high energy physic experiment go awry and spew out live radioactive material ) and might have be inspiration for the late tv show . especially since that ol episode also have the same level of scientific misinformation and technobabble . but that impression wear off quickly and i be leave just wonder why i be yet again subject myself to a flat and breathless richard carlson performance . in the end and my problem be not so much this unremarkable movie ( it vary little from several other movie of the 40 and 50 about the danger of radioactivity ) but about where the people who review this movie a scientifically accurate be get their information . grant and scifi usually have to take some liberty with known scientific fact but there be a difference between dramatic license and just talk sheer rubbish .