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16/06/1948 Thriller 1h 27m
60
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What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?

Overview

The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the U.S.S.R. Embassy in Ottawa, Canada in the midst of World War II. Eventually, Gouzenko defected with 109 pages of material implicating several high level Canadian officials, outlined the steps taken to secure information about the the details of the nuclear bomb via numerous sleeper cells established throughout North America. The scandal that resulted when details of this case were publicized by American columnist Drew Pearson in early 1946 involved Canada, Britain and the United States.

  1. William A. Wellman

    Director

  2. Igor Gouzenko

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Dana Andrews

    Igor Gouzenko

  2. Gene Tierney

    Anna Gouzenko

  3. June Havoc

    Nina Karanova

  4. Berry Kroeger

    John Grubb, aka 'Paul'

  5. Edna Best

    Mrs. Albert Foster

  6. Stefan Schnabel

    Col. Ilya Ranov

  7. Nicholas Joy

    Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'

  8. Eduard Franz

    Maj. Semyon Kulin

  9. Frederic Tozere

    Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09
Dana Andrews is Igor Gouzenko, posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa as a cypher clerk. He has no difficulty with his orders to keep himself to himself and to be polite but distant from his Canadian hosts. This becomes more problematic when he is joined by his wife Anna (Gene Tierney) who has more difficulty with the isolation their existence brings; particularly when they have a son so shorty after the end of the War, he decides that the grand design being proposed by his superiors is not for him, or his family, so decides to amass a collection of crucial documents from his legation and defe...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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