The Beginning or the End
Story of the research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 29, 2019
- Originally Released: 1947
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, Audrey Totter, Hume Cronyn, Art Baker, James Bush, Warner Anderson, Joseph Calleia & Trevor Bardette | |
Performer: | Godfrey Tearle, Hurd Hatfield, Victor Francen, Richard Haydn, Jonathan Hale, John Litel, Henry O'Neill, Barry Nelson, Ludwig Stössel, John Hamilton, Frank Ferguson, Norman Lloyd & Frank Wilcox | |
Directed by | Norman Taurog | |
Edited by | George Boemler | |
Screenwriting by | Frank Wead | |
Composition by | Daniele Amfitheatrof | |
Cinematography by | Ray June | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & Hans Peters | |
Story by | Robert Considine | |
Produced by | Samuel Marx | |
Director of Photography: | Ray June |
Entertainment Reviews:
Description by OLDIES.com:
A dramatization of real-life events, The Beginning or the End opens prior to World War II, when American scientists under the guidance of Dr. Enrico Fermi (Joseph Calleia) win the race to split the atom. Aided by a letter from Albert Einstein (Ludwig Stössel). physicist Matt Cochran (Tom Drake) and his colleagues convince President Roosevelt (Godfrey Tearle) to authorize the construction of a nuclear weapon. Assisted by Cochran and Colonel jeff Nixon (Robert Walker), General Leslie Groves (Brian Donlevy) is placed in charge of the Manhattan Project, a billion-dollar undertaking that will culminate in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the end of WWII.
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- Sales Rank: 20,508
- UPC: 888574330200
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