Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 British drama / thriller film directed by John Boulting and Roy Boulting. Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film.
The film is set some time in the 1950s. The British Prime Minister, (Adam), is sent a letter by Professor Willingdon (Jones). It is a very straight threat that Willingdon will destroy the centre of London in a week's time, at noon (hence the film title), unless the B...
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Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 British drama / thriller film directed by John Boulting and Roy Boulting. Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film.
The film is set some time in the 1950s. The British Prime Minister, (Adam), is sent a letter by Professor Willingdon (Jones). It is a very straight threat that Willingdon will 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 (Morell) of Scotland Yard's Special Branch is charged with tracking down Willingdon and stopping him.
Arriving at the (fictitious) Wallingford Research Centre, Folland's team find Willingdon missing, along with a nuclear bomb. Willingdon's assistant Lane (Cross) is recruited to help and they return to London to search for him.
Willingdon, carrying his bomb in a Gladstone bag, finds lodgings with Mrs. Peckitt (Hickson), but spooks...
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