Walk East on Beacon! (1952)
June 1, 1952Release Date
Walk East on Beacon! (1952)
June 1, 1952Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
George Murphy
Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
Finlay Currie
Professor Albert Kafer
Virginia Gilmore
Millie Zalenko aka Teresa Henning
Louisa Horton
Mrs. Elaine Wilben
Karl Stepanek
Alexi Laschenkov aka Gregory Anders
Peter Capell
Chris Zalenko / Gino
Alfred L. Werker
Director
Laurence Heath
Writer
Bruno Wick
Luther Danzig
J. Edgar Hoover
Writer
Vilma Kurer
Mrs. Rita Foss
Emmett Murphy
Writer
Ann Thomas
Philadelphia Suspect
George Roy Hill
Nicholas Wilben
Leo Rosten
Writer
Virginia Shaler
Writer
Karl Weber
FBI Agent Charlie Reynolds
Michael Garrett
Michael Dorndoff aka Frank Torrance
Lotte Palfi Andor
Anna Kafer
Ernest Graves
Robert Martin
Robert Carroll
Boldany
Wolfgang Zilzer
August Helmuth
Bradford Hatton
Harry Mason
Rosemary Pettit
Mrs. Martin
Eva Condon
Landlady
Steve Mitchell
Samson
Angelo Ross
Editor
Borden Mace
Associate Producer
Lothar Wolff
Associate Producer
Joseph C. Brun
Director of Photography
Louis De Rochemont
Producer
Louis Applebaum
Original Music Composer
Lodge Cunningham
Sound
Peter Ratkevich
Assistant Editor
Jack Shaindlin
Music Director
George Stoetzel
Camera Operator
Herbert Andrews
Art Direction
Edward Horton
Camera Operator
Thomas Whitesell
Unit Manager
Shirlee Weingarten
Casting Director
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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.