Seven Days to Noon

The Academy Award for Best Story went to this British jewel about the breakdown of one of the scientists responsible for making the first atomic weapon. Professor John Willingdon (Barry Jones) steals a deadly warhead and threatens to use it blow up London in one week unless his government agrees to a nuclear ban. Electrifying suspenser also stars Olive Sloane, Andre Morell, Sheila Manahan, Joan Hickson.