Seven Days To Noon.

Shows how the entire city of London is evacuated when a leading English scientist, crazed with the knowledge that his life's work has led to the atomic bomb, threatens to destroy the city unless production of the weapon is outlawed.

Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) works at Britain's atomic weapons development facility, the (fictitious) Wallingford Research Centre, from which he has surreptitiously taken a nuclear warhead. He threatens to destroy the centre of London in a week's time, at noon (hence the film title), unless the British government declares that it is to stop all stockpiling of nuclear warheads. Detective Superintendent Folland of Scotland Yard's Special Branch is charged with tracking down Willingden and stopping him. Willingon's assistant Lane (Hugh Cross) is recruited to help and they

Credits

Cast
Barry Jones, André Morell, Hugh Cross
Complete catalog record
SEVEN DAYS TO NOON. London Film Productions, Ltd., 1950. Released in the U. S. by London Film Productions, Inc. 93 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. © London Film Productions, Inc.; pub. in England 1Sep50, in U. S.; 18Dec50; LP696., Shows how the entire city of London is evacuated when a leading English scientist, crazed with the knowledge that his life's work has led to the atomic bomb, threatens to destroy the city unless production of the weapon is outlawed. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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  2. Wikidata · Q1389525 ↗ — country