Walk East on Beacon
| Walk East on Beacon! | |
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| Directed by | Alfred L. Werker |
| Written by | Leo Rosten Virginia Shaler Laurence Heath Emmett Murphy |
| Based on | The Crime of the Century by J. Edgar Hoover |
| Produced by | Louis De Rochemont |
| Starring | George Murphy Finlay Currie Virginia Gilmore |
| Cinematography | Joseph C. Brun |
| Edited by | Angelo Ross |
| Music by | Jack Shaindlin Louis Applebaum (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.35 million (US rentals) |
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.