Walk East on Beacon!
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1952 | 98m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Alfred L. Werker |
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| Writer: | Leo Rosten, J. Edgar Hoover |
| Staring: |
| An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 01, 1952 |
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| Director: | Alfred L. Werker |
| Writer: | Leo Rosten, J. Edgar Hoover |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | cold war, espionage, communist infiltrator |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures, RD-DR Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Apr 29, 2024 Entered: Apr 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| George Murphy | Inspector James 'Jim' Belden |
| Finlay Currie | Professor Albert Kafer |
| Virginia Gilmore | Millie / Teresa Zalenko |
| Karl Stepanek | Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders |
| Louisa Horton | Mrs. Elaine Wilben |
| Peter Capell | Chris Zalenko / Gino |
| Bruno Wick | Luther Danzig |
| Vilma Kurer | Mrs. Rita Foss |
| Ann Thomas | Philadelphia Suspect |
| George Roy Hill | Nicholas Wilben |
| Karl Weber | FBI Agent Charlie Reynolds |
| Michael Garrett | Michael Dorndoff aka Frank Torrance |
| Lotte Palfi Andor | Anna Kafer |
| Ernest Graves | Robert Martin |
| Robert Carroll | Boldany |
| Wolfgang Zilzer | August Helmuth |
| Bradford Hatton | Harry Mason |
| Rosemary Pettit | Mrs. Martin |
| Eva Condon | Landlady |
| Steve Mitchell | Samson |
| John Farrell | None |
| Nancy Hale | None |
| Westbrook Van Voorhis | None |
| Mary Young | None |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Alfred L. Werker | Director |
| Leo Rosten | Screenplay, Story |
| J. Edgar Hoover | Writer |
| Louis Applebaum | Original Music Composer |
| Joseph C. Brun | Director of Photography |
| Angelo Ross | Editor |
| Edward Horton | Camera Operator |
| George Stoetzel | Camera Operator |
| Herbert Andrews | Art Direction |
| Lodge Cunningham | Sound |
| Peter Ratkevich | Assistant Editor |
| Thomas Whitesell | Unit Manager |
| Shirlee Weingarten | Casting Director |
| Jack Shaindlin | Music Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Louis De Rochemont | Producer |
| Borden Mace | Associate Producer |
| Lothar Wolff | Associate Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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Were it not for the oppressive and seriously condescending narrative this might have been quite a decent little fifth-columnist drama. Karel Stepanek is "Laschenko", the communist mastermind behind a plot to force renowned scientist "Prof. Kafer" (a very unlikely Finlay Currie) to reveal some top se ... cret data about a project he is working on. The remainder of the plot is presented almost like a Q and A. The characters pose the questions and the infallible GI men have all the answers, they have all the state of the art kit (some on which looked like it had been drawn at kindergarten) and they also appear to have more manpower than the entire population of Boston, where this is based. Sadly, there is not the slightest jeopardy with this FBI propaganda piece - they even refer to John Edgar Hoover at the end, is if to humanise the man. Stepanek was also reliable as the baddie but the rest of the cast - and the film - are entirely forgettable.