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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.
Ludwig Stössel
- Dr. Albert Einstein
- (as Ludwig Stossel)
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- QuizAt the time of this production, there was a legal requirement that permission had to be obtained from well-known living public figures to be depicted on film. Several prominent scientists refused permission, including Niels Bohr, Sir James Chadwick and Lise Meitner. This unfortunately gave the film the appearance the Manhattan Project was more all-American than it really was.
- BlooperIn the movie the character Matt Cochran (played by Tom Drake) has an accident in the laboratory on Tinian that eventually kills him from radiation poison, but he is credited with saving 40,000 lives because of his self-sacrifice of bare-handedly separating the radioactive materials. This incident did not happen on Tinian. Rather, it reflects a similar accident that killed Canadian scientist Louis Slotin at Los Alamos NM in May 1946.
- Citazioni
End Title Card: To the people of the 25th Century: The was THE BEGINNING. Only you, and those who have lived between us and you, can know THE END.
- Curiosità sui creditiThe opening credits, in light of a print of the film being locked in a time capsule to be opened in 2446, include the following: "You are about to see the motion picture sealed in the time capsule for the people of the 25TH Century." Subsequently, the end credits include the following in light of the opening statement: "To the people of the 25TH Century, This was THE BEGINNING. Only you, and those who have lived between us and you, can know THE END"
- ConnessioniFeatured in Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped (1995)
Recensione in evidenza
The idea for this film was brought to the studio(MGM) by Donna Reed, whose high school science teacher had written to her about the secret WW11atomic bomb research project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Later, Donna and her husband, Tony Owen, received a $50,000 finders fee for this contribution. Always a contentious project, cooperation came from the army, including General Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project and from top scientists including J. Robert Oppenheimer, at Berkeley, and Albert Einstein, at Princeton. President Truman knew about the film and met with the producer. The script went through a lengthy development with columnist/screenwriter Bob Considine, and Clark Gable was originally in mind for the Robert Walker part. The Tom Drake scene, scattering a "going-critical mass" with his unprotected hand, is based on an actual incident, and the scientist who did it at the Chicago research lab (and possibly saved a good section of the city), died as a result.
Not successful at the box office, the studio rationalized the picture was too soon after the war and too realistic: audiences were not able to assimilate a story about nuclear energy in the late '40s, they were terrified of the bomb, of radiation fallout; pictures of Hiroshima were still in the news..
The film walks a fine line between fact and fiction (it received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary), but how effective was softening a docu-drama with a fictionalized love story?. The atomic "pile" was constructed on a sound stage, and the shots of the B-29 formation seem an appropriate metaphor for the film's subtext, the power of the nascent military/industrial relationship... moving forcefully ahead into the unknown.
Not successful at the box office, the studio rationalized the picture was too soon after the war and too realistic: audiences were not able to assimilate a story about nuclear energy in the late '40s, they were terrified of the bomb, of radiation fallout; pictures of Hiroshima were still in the news..
The film walks a fine line between fact and fiction (it received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary), but how effective was softening a docu-drama with a fictionalized love story?. The atomic "pile" was constructed on a sound stage, and the shots of the B-29 formation seem an appropriate metaphor for the film's subtext, the power of the nascent military/industrial relationship... moving forcefully ahead into the unknown.
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- 17 mag 2008
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