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Seven Days to Noon (1950)

94 min · Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film

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Directors

John Boulting, Roy Boulting

Cast

Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, André Morell, Sheila Manahan, Hugh Cross

The story

In 1950, one Monday, the British Prime Minister receives a letter from a man who says he has stolen a nuclear weapon and will destroy the centre of London next Sunday at noon, unless the British government declares that the country is going to stop making such devices. The letter is signed "Professor Willingdon", which is the name of the senior researcher at Britain's atomic weapons development facility, the fictitious Wallingford Research Centre; Detective Superintendent Folland of Scotland Yard's Special Branch is charged with investigating whether the letter is a fraud or represents a genuine threat. At the Research Centre, Folland…

Catalogue themes and tags

Thriller, Doomsday film, Psychological thriller, Black-and-white, Drama, Political thriller

Genres

Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film

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