Walk East on Beacon! (1952)
Genre: Thriller / Drama
Duration: 98 minuten
Alternative title: The Crime of the Century
Country:
United States
Directed by: Alfred L. Werker
Stars: George Murphy, Finlay Currie and Virginia Gilmore
IMDb score:
5,7 (668)
Releasedate: 1 June 1952
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Walk East on Beacon! plot
"MOST THRILLING PICTURE SINCE "HOUSE ON 92ND STREET"!"
In New York, the FBI tries to track down a dangerous security flaw within their agency. Federal agent James "Jim" Belden has been appointed to uncover the communist mastermind behind this leak. Jim finds out that the scientist Professor Albert Kafer is being blackmailed. He turns out to be providing information to the Eastern Bloc spy Alexi Laschenkov. But then Jim has to deal with the attractive Teresa Zalenko.
Actors and actresses
Inspector James 'Jim' Belden
Professor Albert Kafer
Millie / Teresa Zalenko
Alexi Laschenkov / Gregory Anders
Mrs. Elaine Wilben
Chris Zalenko / Gino
Luther Danzig
Mrs. Rita Foss
Philadelphia Suspect
Nicholas Wilben
Reviews & comments
starbright boy (moderator films)
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We are four years later. Hollywood has been purged by McCarthyism and Hollywood. And again in semi-documentary style. The source, of all things, is a propagandistic article in Readers Digest by none other than the powerful (and rather questionable) FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The movie isn't much better than Walk a Crooked Mile yesterday. Less so in some ways. The FBI agents here are just a bunch of boring characters. In yesterday's movie, they were much more interesting. As a result, yesterday's film, although even less credible, is a bit juicier. The descriptive voice over works just as badly and is again stiff and the communists in particular are not credible for a moment.
This is much more of a producer's film than a director's film. Director Alfred L. Werker was a hard worker, but few of his mostly low budget films still generate any interest. The producer Louis de Rochemont had been a pioneer of semi-documentary noir and specialized in it. De Rochemont was friends with Hoover and looked over his shoulder more.
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