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The Iron Curtain( 1948)

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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.

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      Dana Andrews

      Igor Gouzenko

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      Gene Tierney

      Anna Gouzenko

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      June Havoc

      Nina Karanova

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      Berry Kroeger

      John Grubb, aka 'Paul'

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      Edna Best

      Mrs. Albert Foster

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      Stefan Schnabel

      Col. Ilya Ranov

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      Nicholas Joy

      Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'

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      Eduard Franz

      Maj. Semyon Kulin

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      Frederic Tozere

      Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)

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      Christopher Olsen

      Andrei Gouzenko

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Jul 09 2022
    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 difficulty with the isolation their existence brings; particularly when they have a son so shorty after the end of the War, he decides that the grand design being proposed by his superiors is not for him, or his family, so decides to amass a collection of crucial documents from his legation and defec...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • cold war
    • based on memoir or autobiography
    • ottawa, canada