The dramatic story of Watson and Crick's race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Directed by
Mick Jackson
Written by
William Nicholson, from James Watson's book "The Race for the Double Helix"
Cast
Jeff Goldblum ... Jim Watson
Tim Pigott-Smith ... Francis Crick
Alan Howard ... Maurice Wilkins
Juliet Stevenson ... Rosalind Franklin
Betsy Brantley ... Elizabeth Watson
John Moreno ... Vittorio Luzzati
Daniel André Pageon First Colleague
Yves Aubert ... Second Colleague
Anthony Benson ... J.T. Randall
Clive Panto ... Max Perutz
Rupert Massey ... John Kendrew
Geoffrey Chater ... Sir Lawrence Bragg
Nicholas Fry ... Raymond Gosling
Tom McCabe ... Bill Seeds
Petronella Ford ... Odile Crick
Ian Harvey ... Bruce Fraser
Vass Anderson ... Alex Stokes
Jill Johnson ... Freda Ticehurst
Rachel Weaver ... First French Girl
Katherine Kath ... Pop Prior
Gaby Lister ... Second French Girl
David Allister ... John Griffith
Anna Skye ... Girl at Party
Lyndon Brook ... Erwin Chargaff
Vincent Marzello ... Peter Pauling
Ray Charleson ... Jerry Donohue