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The Atomic City
The Atomic City is a 1952 American thriller film noir film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke.
The plot involves a nuclear physicist whose son is kidnapped by terrorists who demand the H-bomb formula.
Screenwriter Sydney Boehm was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Story and Screenplay).
Physicist Frank Addison and his wife Martha live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he performs top-secret work. Their young son Tommy accompanies school mates to a carnival in Santa Fe with their teacher, Ellen Haskell. During a puppet show, Tommy disappears, and his absence is not noticed until his name is announced as the winner of a raffle at the end of the show.
Frank and Martha fear the worst and receive a ransom note assembled with words clipped from different newspapers. They also receive a phone call warning them to remain silent.
Ellen passes along her concerns to her boyfriend, FBI agent Russ Farley, who begins tailing the Addisons. When a kidnapper instructs Frank to steal a file from the atomic lab and mail it to a Los Angeles hotel, Frank wants to inform the authorities, but Martha fears for their boy.
Small-time thief David Rogers collects an envelope with the file at a post office, but the FBI is alerted. Rogers attends a baseball game, followed by FBI agents who ask the television cameras to focus and zoom on him. After the game, his car explodes, killing him. However, Rogers no longer has the envelope. The FBI men watch the film footage, presuming that Rogers had passed the file to someone at the game. Watching the footage, the FBI men spot a hot-dog vendor who is actually Donald Clark, a man with communist ties. The FBI bring him in but are limited in what they can extract. Frank is left alone with Clark and physically assaults him to force him to reveal Tommy's location.
Tommy is moved by his kidnappers to the Puye Cliff Dwellings, led by physicist Peter Rassett, and they briefly encounter the Fenton family. Rassett studies the file that Frank has mailed and deems it a fake. Rassett orders the boy killed, but Tommy has escaped and is hiding in a cave.
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The Atomic City
The Atomic City is a 1952 American thriller film noir film directed by Jerry Hopper and starring Gene Barry and Lydia Clarke.
The plot involves a nuclear physicist whose son is kidnapped by terrorists who demand the H-bomb formula.
Screenwriter Sydney Boehm was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Story and Screenplay).
Physicist Frank Addison and his wife Martha live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he performs top-secret work. Their young son Tommy accompanies school mates to a carnival in Santa Fe with their teacher, Ellen Haskell. During a puppet show, Tommy disappears, and his absence is not noticed until his name is announced as the winner of a raffle at the end of the show.
Frank and Martha fear the worst and receive a ransom note assembled with words clipped from different newspapers. They also receive a phone call warning them to remain silent.
Ellen passes along her concerns to her boyfriend, FBI agent Russ Farley, who begins tailing the Addisons. When a kidnapper instructs Frank to steal a file from the atomic lab and mail it to a Los Angeles hotel, Frank wants to inform the authorities, but Martha fears for their boy.
Small-time thief David Rogers collects an envelope with the file at a post office, but the FBI is alerted. Rogers attends a baseball game, followed by FBI agents who ask the television cameras to focus and zoom on him. After the game, his car explodes, killing him. However, Rogers no longer has the envelope. The FBI men watch the film footage, presuming that Rogers had passed the file to someone at the game. Watching the footage, the FBI men spot a hot-dog vendor who is actually Donald Clark, a man with communist ties. The FBI bring him in but are limited in what they can extract. Frank is left alone with Clark and physically assaults him to force him to reveal Tommy's location.
Tommy is moved by his kidnappers to the Puye Cliff Dwellings, led by physicist Peter Rassett, and they briefly encounter the Fenton family. Rassett studies the file that Frank has mailed and deems it a fake. Rassett orders the boy killed, but Tommy has escaped and is hiding in a cave.