The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain

What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?

1948 · 87 min · ★ 6.0 · Thriller

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.

Directed by William A. Wellman · Written by Igor Gouzenko

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Dana Andrews Igor Gouzenko
Gene Tierney Anna Gouzenko
June Havoc Nina Karanova
Berry Kroeger John Grubb, aka 'Paul'
Edna Best Mrs. Albert Foster
Stefan Schnabel Col. Ilya Ranov
Nicholas Joy Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
Eduard Franz Maj. Semyon Kulin
Frederic Tozere Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
Christopher Olsen Andrei Gouzenko
Noel Cravat
Anne Curson

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