The Iron Curtain
What Was Behind Their Mission... THIS TERROR?
Directed by William A. Wellman
Produced by 20th Century Fox
A Cold War espionage thriller built on real historical defection, driven by paranoia and geopolitical stakes rather than intimate character study.
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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