- "Berkeley Square." (1933)
The first film to deal with time travel. (Literally nothing to do with Berkeley University.) Being the first, there are issues! Though it is, overall, done surprising well. A hidden gem that I was fortunate enough to enjoy a few years back. A man somehow switches places with an ancestor, and time travels back to Colonial days. He looks just like his ancestor, so everyone treats him as though he is that individual. This makes some otherwise very awkward moments flow more organically. The Time Traveler ends up falling in love in the past.
We never see what happens to his ancestor who is trapped in his body, in the then present-day. Though at the end of the film, we hear about his shenanigans. Tough to pin-point which genre this film falls into. Bit of heavy emphasis on God, but the audience isn't hit over the head with the religious element in the film. Despite being Pre-Code, nothing salacious in it. Definitely worth a watch.
