The Iron Curtain
16/06/1948
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.
Movie Information
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
Noel Cravat
as
Anne Curson
as
Helena Dare
as
John Davidson
as
Michael Dugan
as
Reed Hadley
as Narrator (voice)
Mauritz Hugo
as
John Ridgely
as
John Shay
as
Brick Sullivan
as
Ken Terrell
as
Joe Whitehead
as
Peter Whitney
as
Victor Wood
as
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