The Iron Curtain (1948)
What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?
87 min
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.
- Release date
- June 16, 1948
- Country of origin
- United States
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Cast
- 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
- Christopher Olsen as Andrei Gouzenko
- Noel Cravat
- Helena Dare
- John Davidson
- Michael Dugan
- Reed Hadley as Narrator (voice)
- Mauritz Hugo
- John Ridgely
- John Shay
- Ken Terrell
- Joe Whitehead
- Peter Whitney
- Leslie Barrie as Editor
Crew
- William A. Wellman · Director
- Milton Krims · Writer
- Igor Gouzenko · Writer
- Sol C. Siegel · Producer
- Charles G. Clarke · Cinematographer
- Louis R. Loeffler · Editor