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A prelude scene in the form of a Newsreel story suggests that the film is part of a package of information about the development of atomic energy and the atomic bomb being placed in a time capsule in California, to be opened in 2446.
- $2.6 million
- Samuel Marx
Told from the perspective of a film recovered from a time capsule several hundred years into the future, the story is narrated by Robert Oppenheimer ( Hume Cronyn) and Major General Leslie Groves ( Brian Donlevy) beginning with the Nazis stated goal of developing an atomic bomb.
This features an opening narration by Hume Cronyn as Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer, the subject of a well received 2023 historical drama, and informs the audience (and the recipients of a time capsule in 2446) of the intended plans for the film to be discovered 500 years later...if the world still exists.
Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. True story of the Manhattan Project and the race to build the atomic bomb. Cast & Crew. Read More. Norman Taurog. Director. Brian Donlevy. Major General Leslie R. Groves. Robert Walker. Colonel Jeff Nixon. Tom Drake. Matt Cochran. Beverly Tyler. Anne Cochran. Audrey Totter. Jean O'Leary.
- Norman Taurog, Stanley Goldsmith, Frank Myers
- Brian Donlevy
Oct 13, 2020 · The Beginning or the End ( Taurog, 1947 ), as the title signals, poses questions about sequencing, and while the main narrative of the film adheres to a conventional chronological account, the meta-textual opening introduces an equivocal temporality.
- John Beck, John Beck, Mark Dorrian
- 2020
Told from the perspective of a film recovered from a time capsule several hundred years into the future, the story is narrated by Robert Oppenheimer ( Hume Cronyn) and Major General Leslie Groves ( Brian Donlevy) beginning with the Nazis stated goal of developing an atomic bomb.
Film. Reviews. Dec 31, 1946 11:00pm PT. The Beginning or the End tells its portentous tale in broad strokes of masterful scripting and production. Picture tees off with a pseudo news...
