The Iron Curtain
movie
What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?
Released June 16, 1948
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Overview
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.
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 (as Frederic Tozère)
Christopher Olsen
as
Andrei Gouzenko
Crew
William A. Wellman
as
Director
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Igor Gouzenko
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Writer
Sol C. Siegel
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Producer
Charles G. Clarke
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Director of Photography
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Louis R. Loeffler
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Editor
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Mark-Lee Kirk
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Art Direction
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Lyle R. Wheeler
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Art Direction
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Thomas Little
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Set Decoration
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Bonnie Cashin
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Costume Design
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Ben Nye
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Makeup Artist
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Frank Serjack
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Still Photographer
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Milton Krims
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Screenplay