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Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind...
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One of the greatest BBC films of all time!
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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Was originally shown as a "Horizon special" on the BBC, Horizon being the name of BBC2's main science programme.
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Gotta get famous.
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Come On-a My House
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I could not disagree more strongly with the previous reviewer. I don't know that I've enjoyed any movie I've been forced to watch at school. That aside, this is a fantastic film about one of the watershed scientific discoveries of the 20th century. "Race For The Double Helix" is just that, a fantastic race to see who will discover the "secret of the gene." Jeff Goldblum and Tim Piggot-Smith are outstanding as Crick and Watson--the team that eventually goes on to build the model of DNA--but it is Alan Howard and Juliet Stevenson that really steal the show in portraying the relationship between Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. Anyone who loves history, or science with be enthralled. The French dialoge adds a terrific touch of realism and the period is depicted with tremendous detail. I call this the "Rocky" film for science geeks, but it is so much more, a fascinating look at a real scientific discovery. Outstanding. 10/10