The Iron Curtain (1948)

ALL 06/16/1948 (en) Thriller 87 Min
  • Release
    06/16/1948
  • Production
    20th Century Fox
  • Rotten tomato
    58%
  • Original title
    The Iron Curtain
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Story

  2. Sol C. Siegel

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Dana Andrews

    Igor Gouzenko

  2. Gene Tierney

    Anna Gouzenko

  3. June Havoc

    Nina Karanova

  4. Berry Kroeger

    John Grubb, aka 'Paul'

  5. Edna Best

    Mrs. Albert Foster

  6. Stefan Schnabel

    Col. Ilya Ranov

  7. Nicholas Joy

    Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'

  8. Eduard Franz

    Maj. Semyon Kulin

  9. Frederic Tozere

    Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)

  10. Christopher Olsen

    Andrei Gouzenko

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 10 , Crews : 11

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The Iron Curtain (1948) 87 Min

ALL 06/16/1948 (en)
Thriller
  • Release 06/16/1948
  • Production
    20th Century Fox
  • Original title The Iron Curtain
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. William A. Wellman

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Louis R. Loeffler

    Editor

  4. Sol C. Siegel

    Producer