The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End

Infobox Film
name = The Beginning or the End


image_size =
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director = Norman Taurog
producer = Samuel Marx
writer = Frank Wead
starring = Brian Donlevy
Hume Cronyn
music = Daniele Amfitheatrof
cinematography = Ray June
editing = George Boemler
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = February 19, 1947
runtime = 112 min.
country = flagicon|United States U.S.A.
language = English
amg_id = 1:84689
imdb_id = 0039178

"The Beginning or the End" is a 1947 film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Brian Donlevy and Hume Cronyn. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Plot

The film dramatizes the creation of the atomic bomb in the Manhattan Project, and the bombing of Japan. The technical details of atomic processes and the bomb's design are wildly inaccurate, by intention; these details were highly classified and the true nature of the weapon could not even be hinted at. A number of experts from Oak Ridge and Los Alamos acted as technical advisors: DR. H.T. Wensel, DR. Edward R. Tompkins — Oak Ridge, Tennessee, DR. David Hawkins — Los Alamos, New Mexico, W. Bradford Shank— Los Alamos, New Mexico. Military Technical Advisors included: William A. Consodine, COL. — Manhattan Project, Charles W. Sweeny, Lt. Col. A.C. (piloted 2nd atomic attack on Japan).

The film was remarkably free of pro-nuclear propaganda, but was rooted in the idea that building and using the bomb was a necessary evil.

Hume Cronyn later played Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in Day One, another film about the Manhattan Project.

References

http://www.atomicbombcinema.com/english/image_gallery/beginning/begin_end_18.htm

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