Au carrefour du siècle (1947)
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Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, aux Etats-Unis. La découverte de la fission de l'atome d'uranium par le savant italien Enrico Fermi bouleverse la face du monde. Le président Roosevelt, d'abord réticent, décide de faire construire la première bombe atomique dans les usines d'Oak Ridge et charge le général Groves et le colonel Nixon de la supervision des travaux. Malgré certaines oppositions au projet, la bombe sera expérimentée dans le désert du Nouveau-Mexique, puis lancée sur Hiroshima...
Directeur: Norman Taurog
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Brian Donlevy as Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves |
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Robert Walker as Col. Jeff Nixon |
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Tom Drake as Matt Cochran |
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Beverly Tyler as Anne Cochran |
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Hume Cronyn as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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Audrey Totter as Jean O'Leary |
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Hurd Hatfield as Dr. John Wyatt |
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Joseph Calleia as Dr. Enrico Fermi |
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Godfrey Tearle as President Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Victor Francen as Dr. Marre |
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Richard Haydn as Dr. Chisholm |
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Jonathan Hale as Dr. Vannevar Bush |
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John Litel as K.T. Keller |
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Henry O'Neill as Gen. Thomas F. Farrell |
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Warner Anderson as Capt. William S. Parsons |
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Ellen Ross as Waitress |
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Bobby Jordan as Radioman on Tinian Receiving A-Bomb Message |
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Jerry Schumacher as Nazi Officer |
| Directing | Norman Taurog | Director |
| Writing | Frank Wead | Writer |
| Production | Samuel Marx | Producer |
| Writing | Bob Considine | Story |
| Art | Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Art | F. Keogh Gleason | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Frank E. Myers | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Stanley Goldsmith | Assistant Director |
| Art | Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Sound | Daniele Amfitheatrof | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Hans Peters | Art Direction |
| Camera | Ray June | Director of Photography |
| Editing | George Boemler | Editor |