Release Date

16 Jun, 1948

Runtime

01:27: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?

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.

Original Title

The Iron Curtain

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Actors

Dana Andrews

Gene Tierney

June Havoc

Berry Kroeger

Edna Best

Stefan Schnabel

Nicholas Joy

Eduard Franz

Frederic Tozere

Christopher Olsen

Noel Cravat

Anne Curson

Helena Dare

John Davidson

Michael Dugan

Reed Hadley

Mauritz Hugo

John Ridgely

John Shay

Brick Sullivan

Ken Terrell

Crew

William A. Wellman

Igor Gouzenko

Sol C. Siegel

Lyle R. Wheeler

Mark-Lee Kirk

Bonnie Cashin

Louis R. Loeffler

Thomas Little

Charles G. Clarke

Ben Nye

Frank Serjack

Milton Krims

Darryl F. Zanuck