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Post by Doghouse6 on Sept 11, 2021 12:11:12 GMT
Hmm. If Nolan was going to return to the historical genre, particularly World War Two, I kind of wish he’d pick something more obscure or unusual. But I was skeptical about him doing Dunkirk and after seeing how he handled that movie, I will wait and see. It may be a very very known part of history, but there really hasn't been many movies about the creation of the atomic bomb, that I have heard of anyway. The only one I have heard of and seen is Fat Man and Little Boy. In 1947, MGM released The Beginning Or the End under the direction of studio jack-of-all-genres Norman Taurog, which tells the same story as Fat Man and Little Boy in a manner so similar that it seems almost a blueprint for the later film. Surprisingly candid for the period, it had Brian Donlevy as Gen. Groves, Hume Cronyn as Oppenheimer and a cast drawn from studio players such as Robert Walker, Tom Drake (playing what would become the John Cusack role in the later film), Audrey Totter, Hurd Hatfield, Barry Nelson and a collection of familiar character players - Joseph Calleia, Henry O'Neill, Jonathan Hale, Richard Haydn, John Litel, Warner Anderson and Ludwig Stössel among them - as various real-life or fictional-but-representative characters. Perhaps the most significant difference from Fat Man is the brief, optimistic note upon which it concludes, extolling the imagined miraculous promise of nuclear power for the future (and without which one might guess it would never have gotten either a green-light or government cooperation). Overall, though, it's a pretty decent film benefiting from the immediacy of the then-recent history it relates.
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