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The Iron Curtain (1948)

The Iron Curtain (1948)

Thriller

What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?

Release Date: 1948, June 16
Directors: William A. Wellman
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox, 20th Century Fox
Cast: Christopher Olsen, Eduard Franz, Gene Tierney, Berry Kroeger, Dana Andrews, Stefan Schnabel, June Havoc, Nicholas Joy, Reed Hadley, Frederic Tozere, Edna Best

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.

Keywords:

cold war based on memoir or autobiography ottawa, canada