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.

Cast

Dana Andrews

Dana Andrews

as Igor Gouzenko

Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney

as Anna Gouzenko

June Havoc

June Havoc

as Nina Karanova

Berry Kroeger

Berry Kroeger

as John Grubb, aka 'Paul'

Edna Best

Edna Best

as Mrs. Albert Foster

Stefan Schnabel

Stefan Schnabel

as Col. Ilya Ranov

Nicholas Joy

Nicholas Joy

as Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'

Eduard Franz

Eduard Franz

as Maj. Semyon Kulin

Frederic Tozere

Frederic Tozere

as Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)

Christopher Olsen

Christopher Olsen

as Andrei Gouzenko

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Dana Andrews is Igor Gouzenko, posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa as a cypher clerk. He has no difficulty with his orders to keep himself to himself and to be polite but distant from his Canadian hosts. This becomes more problematic when he is joined by his wife Anna (Gene Tierney) who has more ...

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