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.
Release: 1948
Rating: 5.8
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 87 min
Country: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
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Dana Andrews
as Igor Gouzenko
Gene Tierney
as Anna Gouzenko
June Havoc
as Nina Karanova
Berry Kroeger
as John Grubb, aka 'Paul'
Edna Best
as Mrs. Albert Foster
Stefan Schnabel
as Col. Ilya Ranov