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
Brian Dennehy
as Gen. Leslie Groves
Jonathan Wise
as Robert Serber
John Seitz
as Ralph A. Bard
Lorne Brass
as Klaus Fuchs
Michael Tucker
as Leo Szilard
Alan Scarfe
Tony Shalhoub
as Enrico Fermi
David Gow
as Jack Wisnovsky
Ron White
as Colonel Nichols
Tom Butler
as Captain DeSilva
Michael J. Reynolds
as Kenneth Bainbridge
Anne Twomey
as Kitty Oppenheimer
Kliment Denchev
as Michael Polanyi
Romano Orzari
as Leo Szilard's Prime Scientist (uncredited)
John McMartin
as Dr. Arthur Compton
Olek Krupa
as Edward Teller
Lia Sargent
as Mrs. Wisnovsky
Scott Thomson
as Chemist
David Strathairn
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
Richard Dysart
as President Harry S. Truman
Patrick Breen
as Richard Feynman
Vlasta Vrana
as Hans Bethe
Isabelle Mejias
as Mrs. Trowbridge
Hume Cronyn
as James F. Byrnes
Lawrence Dane
Ken Pogue
as Dwight D. Eisenhower
Michael Sinelnikoff
as Lord Rutherford
Timothy Webber
as Colonel Lansdale
George R. Robertson
as Ed Condon
David Ferry
as Army Major
Roland Hewgill
as Army General
Gary Reineke
as Groves's Commanding Officer
Hal Holbrook
as Gen. George Marshall
Harry Standjofski
as Robert Wilson
Ron Frazier
as Colonel Pash
Arthur Holden
as Scientist (uncredited)
Barnard Hughes
as Henry Stimson
David Ogden Stiers
as Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bernie McInerney
Dee McCafferty
as William 'Deke' Parsons
