SEVEN DAYS TO NOON (1950) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: John Boulting
Barry Jones, Olive Sloane, Andre Morell,
Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan, Joan Hickson,
Ronald Adam, Victor Madden, Geoffrey Keen
An atomic-age thriller that plays like a Hitchcock movie, about a scientist who steals a bomb from the lab and threatens to blow up half of London if Britain doesn't get out of the nuclear-arms business. Joan Hickson as a chain-smoking landlady with a house full of cats and Olive Sloane as a floozy with a small dog provide eccentric support. Boulting makes effective use of the London locations, and Gilbert Taylor, who shot "Dr. Strangelove", "A Hard Day's Night" and the first "Star Wars" movie, did the black-and-white cinematography. The original story, by Paul Dehn and James Bernard, won an Academy Award.
