The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain by William A. Wellman

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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.

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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

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