Seven Days to Noon (1950)
Release Date: Dec 18, 1950 Wide
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Barry Jones stars as an idealistic British professor working on atomic research. Upset by the apocalyptic ramifications of his work, Jones constructs his own bomb and threatens to blow up London within one week. His terms: Stop the atomic research or suffer the consequences. As London is evacuated, the authorities close in on Jones, using a rather sophisticated form of psychological warfare to trap the unhinged scientist. Seven Days to Noon manages to sustain its suspense and realism the most
Dec 18, 1950 Wide
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Cast
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Barry Jones
Prof. Willingdon -
Olive Sloane
Goldie -
André Morell
Supt. Folland -
Sheila Manahan
Ann Willingdon -
Hugh Cross
Stephen Lane -
Joan Hickson
Mrs. Peckett -
Ronald Adam
Prime Minister -
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Merrill Meuller
American Commentator -
Marie Ney
Mrs. Willingdon -
Marianne Stone
Woman in Phone Booth -
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an odd and upending entertainment, one that concludes that those on the opposite side of the world are nothing compared to those at home
Gripping suspense thriller about the possible nuclear destruction of London.
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"Seven Days to Noon" is a riveting thriller that accomplishes a heightened level of realism with a superb use of location shooting while sidestepping some obvious pratfalls like a possible romantic subplot. Along the same lines, it is a wise move not to make Willingdon that sympathetic, as he comes off as somebody who is broken from constantly living under an enormous strain that he cannot share and is not thinking rationally, synbolizing the insanity of employing nuclear weapons. And he also reminds me a bit of Dr. Jekyll from the Bugs Bunny cartoon.
"Seven Days to Noon" serves as a valentine to the resiliency of the people of London, living yet again under the threat of a bomb, shortly after the end of World War II. But I would like to disagree with the character of the Prime Minister(and probably also the filmmakers) that the nuclear bombs are necessary(I remember reading in a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer that the scientists at Los Alamos created an atomic bomb out of fear that the Nazis would build one first and never intended it to be used like it was on Hiroshima) as a deterrent because in the end, the threat from another country never turned out to be viable.