The Iron Curtain
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The Iron Curtain

19481h 27mThriller
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Story Line

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.

What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?

Top Cast

Dana Andrews

Dana Andrews

Igor Gouzenko

Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney

Anna Gouzenko

June Havoc

June Havoc

Nina Karanova

Berry Kroeger

Berry Kroeger

John Grubb, aka 'Paul'

Edna Best

Edna Best

Mrs. Albert Foster

Stefan Schnabel

Stefan Schnabel

Col. Ilya Ranov

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Rating

6.0/ 10

Release Date

1948-06-16

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Thriller

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User Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/10
7/9/2022
Dana Andrews is Igor Gouzenko, posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa as a cypher clerk. He has no difficulty with his orders to keep himself to himself and to be polite but distant from his Canadian hosts. This becomes more problematic when he is jo...