The Iron Curtain

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It runs a compact 1h 27m.

Synopsis

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.

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Key crew

• William A. WellmanDirector
• Igor GouzenkoWriter
• Milton KrimsScreenplay

Cast

• Dana AndrewsIgor Gouzenko
• Gene TierneyAnna Gouzenko
• June HavocNina Karanova
• Berry KroegerJohn Grubb, aka 'Paul'
• Edna BestMrs. Albert Foster
• Stefan SchnabelCol. Ilya Ranov
• Nicholas JoyDr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
• Eduard FranzMaj. Semyon Kulin
• Frederic TozereCol. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
• Christopher OlsenAndrei Gouzenko
• Noel CravatCast
• Anne CursonCast

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