Plot

The daily life of those who live and work in Los Alamos, New Mexico seems strange and exotic. There are fenced in areas everywhere, Dad gets thoroughly checked by geiger counters every morning on his way into work, and a co-worker on a perfectly ordinary day gets sent to the hospital with severe burns from radioactivity overexposure. Mom wants to move away because her little son has stopped saying, When I grow up... and has started to say IF I grow up.... This is a big time company town. During a school trip, the son is kidnapped and held for ransom; not money, but nuclear secrets.
Basically a police procedural, The Atomic City is crisply directed by Jerry Hopper, with a very tense chase through the New Mexico hills comprising the final third of the film. Gene Barry and Milburn Stone star, a couple of years ahead of their TV western fame. Young Lee Aaker deserves special credit as the best performance. He would go on in the next year to play Red Chief in the Ransom of Red Chief episode of O'Henry's Full House.

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Ли Аакер / Lee Aaker (р.1943)



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