Walk East on Beacon (1952)

Directed by

Alfred L. Werker

Genre

propaganda film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An FBI agent investigates a Soviet spy ring in the United States. The spies are after top secret scientific programs. The story follows a physicist who is recruited by enemy agents.

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What happens

Walk East on Beacon is a 1952 American film noir drama film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring George Murphy, Finlay Currie, and Virginia Gilmore. It was released by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was inspired by a May 1951 Reader's Digest article by J. Edgar Hoover entitled "The Crime of the Century: The Case of the A-Bomb Spies." The article covers the meeting of German physicist and atomic spy Klaus Fuchs and American chemist Harry Gold as well as details of the Soviet espionage network in the United States. Gold's testimony would later lead to the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for treason. The film substitutes real atomic spying with vague top secret scientific programs. Extensive location shooting was done in New England, around Washington Union Station and in FBI laboratories. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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