< The Beginning or the End (1947)

MOVIE | 1h 52m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 6.5 (872)

Biography, Drama, History, War | A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.

• Director: Norman Taurog
• Writer: Frank Wead
• Writer: Bob Considine
• Brian Donlevy (46) - Major General Leslie R. Groves
• Robert Walker (29) - Colonel Jeff Nixon
• Tom Drake (29) - Matt Cochran
• Beverly Tyler (20) - Anne Cochran
• Audrey Totter (30) - Jean O'Leary
• Hume Cronyn (36) - Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Hurd Hatfield (30) - Dr. John Wyatt
• Joseph Calleia (50) - Dr. Enrico Fermi
• Godfrey Tearle (63) - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Victor Francen (59) - Dr. Marré
• Richard Haydn (42) - Dr. Chisholm
• Jonathan Hale (56) - Dr. Vannevar Bush
• John Litel (55) - K. T. Keller
• Henry O'Neill (56) - General Thomas F. Farrell
• Warner Anderson (36) - Captain William S. Parsons, U.S.N.
• Barry Nelson (30) - Colonel Paul Tibbetts Jr.
• Art Baker (49) - President Harry S. Truman
• Ludwig Stössel (64) - Dr. Albert Einstein
• John Hamilton (60) - Dr. Harold C. Urey
• Frank Ferguson (41) - Dr. James B. Conant