The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain
Release: 1948-06-16
·Runtime: 87m
·★ 5.8
Thriller
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Cast
Gene Tierney
as Anna Gouzenko
Berry Kroeger
as John Grubb, aka 'Paul'
Edna Best
as Mrs. Albert Foster
Stefan Schnabel
as Col. Ilya Ranov
Eduard Franz
as Maj. Semyon Kulin
Christopher Olsen
as Andrei Gouzenko
June Havoc
as Nina Karanova
Nicholas Joy
as Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
Frederic Tozere
as Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
Dana Andrews
as Igor Gouzenko
