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El principio o el fin

Título original: The Beginning or the End
  • 1947
  • Approved
  • 1h 52min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.6/10
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TU CALIFICACIÓN
Brian Donlevy, Tom Drake, Audrey Totter, Beverly Tyler, and Robert Walker in El principio o el fin (1947)
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La investigación, el desarrollo y el despliegue de la primera bomba atómica, así como el bombardeo de Hiroshima.La investigación, el desarrollo y el despliegue de la primera bomba atómica, así como el bombardeo de Hiroshima.La investigación, el desarrollo y el despliegue de la primera bomba atómica, así como el bombardeo de Hiroshima.

  • Dirección
    • Norman Taurog
  • Guionistas
    • Frank Wead
    • Bob Considine
  • Elenco
    • Brian Donlevy
    • Robert Walker
    • Tom Drake
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    6.6/10
    820
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Norman Taurog
    • Guionistas
      • Frank Wead
      • Bob Considine
    • Elenco
      • Brian Donlevy
      • Robert Walker
      • Tom Drake
    • 29Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 13Opiniones de los críticos
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    Brian Donlevy
    Brian Donlevy
    • Major General Leslie R. Groves
    Robert Walker
    Robert Walker
    • Colonel Jeff Nixon
    Tom Drake
    Tom Drake
    • Matt Cochran
    Beverly Tyler
    Beverly Tyler
    • Anne Cochran
    Audrey Totter
    Audrey Totter
    • Jean O'Leary
    Hume Cronyn
    Hume Cronyn
    • Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
    Hurd Hatfield
    Hurd Hatfield
    • Dr. John Wyatt
    Joseph Calleia
    Joseph Calleia
    • Dr. Enrico Fermi
    Godfrey Tearle
    Godfrey Tearle
    • President Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Victor Francen
    Victor Francen
    • Dr. Marré
    Richard Haydn
    Richard Haydn
    • Dr. Chisholm
    Jonathan Hale
    Jonathan Hale
    • Dr. Vannevar Bush
    John Litel
    John Litel
    • K. T. Keller
    Henry O'Neill
    Henry O'Neill
    • General Thomas F. Farrell
    Warner Anderson
    Warner Anderson
    • Captain William S. Parsons, U.S.N.
    Barry Nelson
    Barry Nelson
    • Colonel Paul Tibbetts Jr.
    Art Baker
    Art Baker
    • President Harry S. Truman
    Ludwig Stössel
    Ludwig Stössel
    • Dr. Albert Einstein
    • (as Ludwig Stossel)
    • Dirección
      • Norman Taurog
    • Guionistas
      • Frank Wead
      • Bob Considine
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    Opiniones de usuarios29

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    7jslasher

    Worthy of at least an outing on Turner. Better still on DVD and Blu-ray.

    The aforementioned reviewers have some interesting things to say about the screenplay, direction and the cast. Unfortunately, no mention has been made about the cinematography (first-rate) and the excellent music score composed and conducted by Daniele Amfitheatrof. The composer employed the services of an augmented orchestra, which in some cues numbers in excess of 100-players. In one scene (unfortunately cut from the release print) Amfitheatrof composed a dissonant motif in a syncopated dance-band rhythm, over which an electric violin plays a bittersweet theme. The great Andre Previn worked as one of the copyists on the score.
    7bkoganbing

    The Best Kept Secret

    Although the far more realistic Fat Man And Little Boy deals better with this subject, The Beginning Or The End still is a fine interpretation of the events leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima. No really big star names are in this film probably for the better giving it a nice ring of authenticity.

    Playing the parts of General Leslie Groves and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer the partnership of the military and science that created the atomic bomb are Brian Donlevy and Hume Cronyn. Both bear more than a passing resemblance to the real people.

    The Manhattan Project, the overall name for the effort to create a super weapon to bring a short end to World War II and get it before the Axis did was probably the best kept secret in all of a human history. I have to say it because it involved the efforts of a few thousand people at the various sites at White Sands, Oak Ridge, UCLA, Chicago and of course Manhattan. My father did his wartime service at Oak Ridge and he was just a regular GI and still had no real idea himself what he was doing there.

    Fat Man And Little Boy is far more introspective dealing with the moral decision to use the bomb on a live target. The Beginning Or The End comes down very hard and unquestionably on the rightness of Truman's decision to drop the bomb. Both presidents Roosevelt and Truman are here and played by Geoffrey Tearle and Art Baker respectively.

    The peaceful uses of atomic energy are also discussed and trumpeted. Four younger players Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler, and Audrey Totter represent a quartet of idealistic young people working on the project who talk about a much better world that atomic energy can create. One of them dies in this effort. As for the better world we've reassessed atomic energy in the wake of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. With our dependence on oil however, nuclear energy is once again being reassessed as an alternative.

    The Beginning Or The End still holds up well today with Donlevy and Cronyn heading an impeccably cast ensemble.
    6dedalus7632

    bombs away

    The idea for this film was brought to the studio(MGM) by Donna Reed, whose high school science teacher had written to her about the secret WW11atomic bomb research project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Later, Donna and her husband, Tony Owen, received a $50,000 finders fee for this contribution. Always a contentious project, cooperation came from the army, including General Groves, manager of the Manhattan Project and from top scientists including J. Robert Oppenheimer, at Berkeley, and Albert Einstein, at Princeton. President Truman knew about the film and met with the producer. The script went through a lengthy development with columnist/screenwriter Bob Considine, and Clark Gable was originally in mind for the Robert Walker part. The Tom Drake scene, scattering a "going-critical mass" with his unprotected hand, is based on an actual incident, and the scientist who did it at the Chicago research lab (and possibly saved a good section of the city), died as a result.

    Not successful at the box office, the studio rationalized the picture was too soon after the war and too realistic: audiences were not able to assimilate a story about nuclear energy in the late '40s, they were terrified of the bomb, of radiation fallout; pictures of Hiroshima were still in the news..

    The film walks a fine line between fact and fiction (it received an Academy Award nomination for best documentary), but how effective was softening a docu-drama with a fictionalized love story?. The atomic "pile" was constructed on a sound stage, and the shots of the B-29 formation seem an appropriate metaphor for the film's subtext, the power of the nascent military/industrial relationship... moving forcefully ahead into the unknown.
    califor123

    Got me very interested in the creation of the bomb.

    I remember certain scenes from this movie, which I saw only once, on television when I was a child. I've watched many documentaries and movies on the subject since, and have read several books on the development of the A-Bomb, because I saw this movie when I was young. It was absorbing for me. I do remember the scene where one of the bomb assemblers drops some of the radioactive material and is overcome from the radiation. This scene was repeated in the movie "Fat Man and Little Boy." I have been looking for this film for years on television, with no success. I would think that Turner Classic Movies would play it if it were around.

    Someone, find this film! Oh, so interesting a movie.
    7bob6441

    A 1947 recounting of the making of the atomic bomb

    As a window on 1947society's attitudes toward the making and use of the atomic bomb it is wonderfully revealing. Opie is a hero, not the unfairly hounded"commie" of the McCarthy era. GE, Dumont, and other major firms are surprisingly prominently featured and treated as essential partners of the professors drawn from around the world. The rationale for using the bomb is presented with some tentativeness and includes the intention of saving Japanese lives by avoiding a prolonged war. An "Oath" to protect the secrecy of the project is placed in a legal context, not a political or loyalty test context. Even the "propaganda" noted by other reviewers is of historical interest. Cheers to TCM for showing it. For a comprehensive history of the Manhattan Project the pulitzer prize- winning book by Richard Rhodes is the gold standard.

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      At the time of this production, there was a legal requirement that permission had to be obtained from well-known living public figures to be depicted on film. Several prominent scientists refused permission, including Niels Bohr, Sir James Chadwick and Lise Meitner. This unfortunately gave the film the appearance the Manhattan Project was more all-American than it really was.
    • Errores
      In the movie the character Matt Cochran (played by Tom Drake) has an accident in the laboratory on Tinian that eventually kills him from radiation poison, but he is credited with saving 40,000 lives because of his self-sacrifice of bare-handedly separating the radioactive materials. This incident did not happen on Tinian. Rather, it reflects a similar accident that killed Canadian scientist Louis Slotin at Los Alamos NM in May 1946.
    • Citas

      End Title Card: To the people of the 25th Century: The was THE BEGINNING. Only you, and those who have lived between us and you, can know THE END.

    • Créditos curiosos
      The opening credits, in light of a print of the film being locked in a time capsule to be opened in 2446, include the following: "You are about to see the motion picture sealed in the time capsule for the people of the 25TH Century." Subsequently, the end credits include the following in light of the opening statement: "To the people of the 25TH Century, This was THE BEGINNING. Only you, and those who have lived between us and you, can know THE END"
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      Featured in Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped (1995)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 24 de octubre de 1947 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
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      • The Beginning or the End
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Los Alamos, New Mexico, Estados Unidos
    • Productora
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • Tiempo de ejecución
      1 hora 52 minutos
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.37 : 1

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