Day One (1989)
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Cast & Crew
Brian Dennehy
Gen. Leslie Groves
David Strathairn
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Michael Tucker
Leo Szilard
Hume Cronyn
James F. Byrnes
Richard Dysart
President Harry S. Truman
Hal Holbrook
Gen. George Marshall
Barnard Hughes
Henry Stimson
John McMartin
Dr. Arthur Compton
David Ogden Stiers
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anne Twomey
Kitty Oppenheimer
Lawrence Dane
Ron Frazier
Colonel Pash
Olek Krupa
Edward Teller
Bernie McInerney
Ken Pogue
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gary Reineke
Groves's Commanding Officer
Alan Scarfe
John Seitz
Ralph A. Bard
Tony Shalhoub
Enrico Fermi
Ron White
Colonel Nichols
Patrick Breen
Richard Feynman
Vlasta Vrana
Hans Bethe
Lorne Brass
Klaus Fuchs
Michael Sinelnikoff
Lord Rutherford
Kliment Denchev
Michael Polanyi
Timothy Webber
Colonel Lansdale
Harry Standjofski
Robert Wilson
Lia Sargent
Mrs. Wisnovsky
David Gow
Jack Wisnovsky
Isabelle Mejias
Mrs. Trowbridge
Jonathan Wise
Robert Serber
George R. Robertson
Ed Condon
Dee McCafferty
William 'Deke' Parsons
Tom Butler
Captain DeSilva
David Ferry
Army Major
Michael J. Reynolds
Kenneth Bainbridge
Scott Thomson
Chemist
Roland Hewgill
Army General
Arthur Holden
Scientist (uncredited)
Romano Orzari
Leo Szilard's Prime Scientist (uncredited)
David W. Rintels
Producer
Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent
Executive Producer
Joseph Sargent
Director
