Rent Walk East on Beacon (1952)
3.0 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 36min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Federal agent Belden (George Murphy) is assigned to locate the communist mastermind behind the leak, and to trace all avenues of informational access utilized by the Communists. Professor Albert Kafer (Finlay Currie) is the space-weapons scientist who is being blackmailed by the Reds into cooperating with them, while Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) is the top Eastern-Bloc spy. Using state of the art technology, such as an early miniature video camera, and ingenious methods like a roomful of foreign language lip readers, the G-men crack the case and with the help of the US Coast Guard rescue the professor before he can be spirited away by submarine.
- Actors:
- George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore, Karel Stepanek, Louisa Horton, Peter Capell, Bruno Wick, Jack Manning, Karl Weber, Robert A. Dunn, Vilma Kurer, Michael Garrett, Lotte Palfi Andor, Ernest Graves, Robert Carroll, Wolfgang Zilzer, George Roy Hill, Bradford Hatton, Rosemary Pettit, Eva Condon
- Directors:
- Alfred L. Werker
- Producers:
- Louis De Rochemont
- Narrated By:
- Westbrook Van Voorhis
- Writers:
- Laurence Heath, J. Edgar Hoover, Emmett Murphy, Leo Rosten, Virginia Shaler
- Aka:
- The Crime of the Century / Louis de Rochemont's Walk East on Beacon!
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Pig Power: Animal Farm At 70
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/09/2021
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with Frank Krutnik on 'Walk East on Beacon!'
- The March of Time: 'G-Men Combat Saboteurs' (1941): 1 documentary short from the famed newsreel series of 'Walk East on Beacon!' producer Louis de Rochemont
- The March of Time: 'G-Men at War' (1942): documentary short focused on theefforts of the FBI
- Routine Job: A Story of Scotland Yard (1946): short film following the day-to-day work of Scotland Yard
- Original Theatrical trailer
- Image Gallery
- Six comedy shorts starring the Three Stooges, lampooning the tropes and themes of the features
- World Premiere on Blu-ray
