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The Iron Curtain
1948, Jun 16
1h 27m
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
Reed Hadley
Narrator (voice)
Dana Andrews
Igor Gouzenko
Gene Tierney
Anna Gouzenko
Eduard Franz
Maj. Semyon Kulin
Berry Kroeger
John Grubb, aka 'Paul'
Peter Whitney
Stefan Schnabel
Col. Ilya Ranov
John Davidson
John Ridgely
Nicholas Joy
Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
Edna Best
Mrs. Albert Foster
June Havoc
Nina Karanova
Ken Terrell
Mauritz Hugo
Frederic Tozere
Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
Christopher Olsen
Andrei Gouzenko
Noel Cravat
Anne Curson
Helena Dare
Michael Dugan
John Shay
Brick Sullivan
Joe Whitehead
Victor Wood
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