The Iron Curtain
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.
Year: 1948
Genre: Thriller
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger, Edna Best, Stefan Schnabel
Crew: William A. Wellman (Director), Igor Gouzenko (Writer), Sol C. Siegel (Producer), Charles G. Clarke (Director of Photography), Louis R. Loeffler (Editor), Mark-Lee Kirk (Art Direction)
Runtime: 87 minutes
Release: Jun 16, 1948
IMDb: 5.80/10 by 25 users
Popularity: 2
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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