About
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.
Theatrical
Jun 16, 1948
Cast
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Dana Andrews
Igor Gouzenko
G
Gene Tierney
Anna Gouzenko
J
June Havoc
Nina Karanova
B
Berry Kroeger
John Grubb, aka 'Paul'
E
Edna Best
Mrs. Albert Foster
S
Stefan Schnabel
Col. Ilya Ranov
N
Nicholas Joy
Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
E
Eduard Franz
Maj. Semyon Kulin
F
Frederic Tozere
Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
C
Christopher Olsen
Andrei Gouzenko
N
Noel Cravat
H
Helena Dare
J
John Davidson
M
Michael Dugan
R
Reed Hadley
Narrator (voice)
M
Mauritz Hugo
J
John Ridgely
J
John Shay
B
Brick Sullivan
K
Ken Terrell
