EO, More Than Just a Lost Donkey
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The Iron Curtain (1948)
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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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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Genre:Thriller
Written By:Igor Gouzenko, Milton Krims
In Theaters:6/16/1948
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Runtime:87 minutes
Studio:20th Century Fox
Cast
William A. Wellman
Director
Dana Andrews
Igor Gouzenko
Gene Tierney
Anna Gouzenko
June Havoc
Nina Karanova
Berry Kroeger
John Grubb, aka 'Paul'
Edna Best
Mrs. Albert Foster
Stefan Schnabel
Col. Ilya Ranov
Nicholas Joy
Dr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
Eduard Franz
Maj. Semyon Kulin
Frederic Tozere
Col. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
Christopher Olsen
Andrei Gouzenko
Noel Cravat
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