The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain
Watch the iron curtain on 123Movies. 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.
- Genre: Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: William A. Wellman
- Cast: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger, Edna Best, Stefan Schnabel, Nicholas Joy, Eduard Franz, Frederic Tozere, Christopher Olsen, Noel Cravat, Anne Curson, Helena Dare, John Davidson, Michael Dugan, Reed Hadley, Mauritz Hugo, John Ridgely, John Shay, Brick Sullivan, Ken Terrell,
