{{More citations needed|date=October 2023}} {{Infobox film | name =Silvery Dust | image = Silver_Powder.jpg | caption = | director = Pavel Armand <br> Abram Room | producer = | writer = Aleksandr Filimonov <br> August Jakobson | narrator = | starring = | music = Mikhail Chulaki | cinematography = Eduard Tisse | editing = | studio = Mosfilm | distributor = | released ={{Film date|1953|10|19|df=yes}} | runtime = 102 minutes | country = Soviet Union | language = Russian | budget = | gross = }} '''''Silvery Dust''''' ({{langx|ru|Серебристая пыль|Serebristaya pyl}}) is a 1953 Soviet science fiction drama film directed by Pavel Armand and Abram Room and starring Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya and Valentina Ushakova.<ref>Liehm & Liehm p.69</ref>
==Synopsis==
The film takes place in the United States. Samuel Steal is a scientist with only one life purpose - to become rich. The professor invents a powerful new weapon of mass destruction; a deadly radioactive silver-gray powder. To possess Steal's invention, a struggle between two military-industrial behemoth trusts involving gangsters begins.
==Cast== * Mikhail Bolduman as Samuel Steal * Sofiya Pilyavskaya as Doris Steal * Valentina Ushakova as Jen O'Connel * Nikolai Timofeyev as Allan O'Connel * Vsevolod Larionov as Harry Steal * Vladimir Belokurov as Upton Bruce * Rostislav Plyatt as McKennedy * Grigori Kirillov as Dr. Kurt Schneider * Aleksandr Khanov as Charles Armstrong * Valeriy Lekarev as Gideon Smith * Gennadi Yudin as Dick Jones * Zana Zanoni as Mary Robinson * D. Kolmogorov as Ben Robinson * Aleksandr Pelevin as Joe Twist * Lidiya Smirnova as Flossy Beit * Osip Abdulov as Sheriff Smiles * Sergei Tsenin * Nadir Malishevsky * Aleksandr Shatov * Vladimir Savelev * Yuri Chekulayev * Arkadi Tsinman * Vladimir Sez * Isaak Leongarov * A. Arkadyeva * N. Nazaren * Robert Ross * Konstantin Nemolyayev as Johnny * Fyodor Odinokov as Sheriff's Assistant * Leonid Pirogov as Detained Unemployed * Anna Zarzhitskaya as Deadley's Wife
== References == <references/>
== Bibliography == * Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. ''The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945''. University of California Press, 1977.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0169216}}
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