Day One
Day One
Release: 1989-05-12
·Runtime: 141m
·★ 5.8
History
Drama
TV Movie
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Production Countries
Canada
United States of America
Production Companies
World International Network (WIN)
Spelling Entertainment
AT&T
Cast
Olek Krupa
as Edward Teller
Vlasta Vrana
as Hans Bethe
Arthur Holden
as Scientist (uncredited)
John McMartin
as Dr. Arthur Compton
Ken Pogue
as Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gary Reineke
as Groves's Commanding Officer
Alan Scarfe
Ron White
as Colonel Nichols
Harry Standjofski
as Robert Wilson
Roland Hewgill
as Army General
Lia Sargent
as Mrs. Wisnovsky
Lawrence Dane
Michael J. Reynolds
as Kenneth Bainbridge
David Strathairn
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Patrick Breen
as Richard Feynman
Michael Tucker
as Leo Szilard
Tony Shalhoub
as Enrico Fermi
David Ogden Stiers
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lorne Brass
as Klaus Fuchs
Isabelle Mejias
as Mrs. Trowbridge
John Seitz
as Ralph A. Bard
Scott Thomson
as Chemist
Dee McCafferty
as William 'Deke' Parsons
Hal Holbrook
as Gen. George Marshall
Timothy Webber
as Colonel Lansdale
Tom Butler
as Captain DeSilva
David Ferry
as Army Major
Brian Dennehy
as Gen. Leslie Groves
Richard Dysart
as President Harry S. Truman
Barnard Hughes
as Henry Stimson
Anne Twomey
as Kitty Oppenheimer
Ron Frazier
as Colonel Pash
Romano Orzari
as Leo Szilard's Prime Scientist (uncredited)
Michael Sinelnikoff
as Lord Rutherford
Kliment Denchev
as Michael Polanyi
David Gow
as Jack Wisnovsky
Jonathan Wise
as Robert Serber
Hume Cronyn
as James F. Byrnes
Bernie McInerney
George R. Robertson
as Ed Condon
