The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End

1947 | 1h 52m | Drama, Documentary | TV-PG

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Brief Synopsis

Discover the true story of the development and deployment of the atomic bomb by the United States. History's most destructive weapon, "the bomb" becomes a scientific Frankenstein monster that will end World War II with dreadful finality.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Norman Taurog

CAST

Brian Donlevy

Robert Walker

Tom Drake

Beverly Tyler

Audrey Totter

Hume Cronyn

Godfrey Tearle

PRODUCERS

Samuel Marx

WRITERS

Frank Wead

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Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Just Another Bomb
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Jonathan Hale resembles Vannevar Bush, whom he plays, consulting FDR (Godfrey Tearle) about the need for atomic research, whose call across the pond causes fictional Brits Chisolm (Richard Haydn) and Wyatt (Hurd Hatfield) to proceed to Chicago, in The Beginning Or The End, 1947.
02:22
Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Atom Bomb Special
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A wholly fictional prologue, as the ceremony covered in this fake newsreel never took place, and all the identified historical figures are portrayed by actors (Brian Donlevy, Hume Cronyn prominent), in MGMs government-approved story of the atom bomb, The Beginning Or The End, 1947.
03:15
Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) We Can Change The World
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Joining narration by Hume Cronyn in the voice of J. Robert Oppenheimer, introducing Tom Drake as fictional student Matt, with Joseph Calleia and Victor Francen as scientists Fermi and Marre, for a big moment at Columbias Pupin Hall, in the A-Bomb docudrama The Beginning Or The End, 1947.
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Beginning Or The End, The (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Flash Gordon's Latest
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Beginning or the End, The - (Original Trailer)
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Two years after the events, MGM recounts how the United States developed and dropped the atomic bomb in The Beginning or the End (1947).

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