A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI break up an enemy spy ring.
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Trailer
35mm The Atomic Kid
Cast
Mickey Rooney
Barnaby 'Blix' Waterberry
Robert Strauss
Stan Cooper
Elaine Devry
Audrey Nelson
Bill Goodwin
Dr. Rodell
Whit Bissell
Dr. Edgar Pangborn
Joey Forman
MP in Hospital
Peter Leeds
Agent Bill
Hal March
Agent Ray
Fay Roope
Gen. Lawlor
Stanley Adams
Wildcat Hooper
Robert Emmett Keane
Mr. Reynolds
Paul Dubov
Anderson
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