The Iron Curtain
What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?
1948 · 1h 27m · APPROVED
Thriller
Directed by
William A. Wellman
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.
Director and cast
- William A. Wellman Director
- Dana Andrews as Igor Gouzenko
- Gene Tierney as Anna Gouzenko
- June Havoc as Nina Karanova
- Berry Kroeger as John Grubb, aka 'Paul'
- Edna Best as Mrs. Albert Foster
- Stefan Schnabel as Col. Ilya Ranov
- Nicholas Joy as Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
- Eduard Franz as Maj. Semyon Kulin
- Frederic Tozere as Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
- Christopher Olsen as Andrei Gouzenko
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