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The Atomic City is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jerry Hopper released in USA on 1 may 1952 with Gene Barry

The Atomic City (1952)

The Atomic City
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Released in USA 1 may 1952
Length 1h25
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Science fiction,    Thriller
Rating60% 3.0428853.0428853.0428853.0428853.042885

The Atomic City is a 1952 drama film directed by Jerry Hopper, starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke.

The story takes place at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a nuclear physicist (Barry) lives and works. Terrorists kidnap his son and demand that the physicist turn over the H-bomb formula.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Story and Screenplay), Sydney Boehm being the nominee.

Synopsis

Frank and Martha Addison live in Los Alamos, where he does top-secret work as a physicist. They have a young son, Tommy, who goes with school mates to Santa Fe for a carnival, where teacher Ellen Haskell can't find him when Tommy's winning ticket in a raffle is announced.

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