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The Iron Curtain(Movie, 1948)

1h 27min | Genres: Mystery, Thriller
The Iron CurtainRating: 3.0/5 (with 1212 votes)
The Iron Curtain is a 1948 American thriller film starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, directed by William A. Wellman. It was the first film on the Cold War. The film was based on the memoirs of Igor Gouzenko. Principal photography was done on location in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by Charles G. Clarke. The film was later re-released as Behind the Iron Curtain. In Shostakovich v. Twentieth Century-Fox, Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich unsuccessfully sued Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, the film's distributor, in New York court, for using musical works of his that could not be excluded from the public domain. However, the plaintiffs were victorious in the French analog: Société Le Chant du Monde v. Société Fox Europe and Société Fox Americaine Twentieth Century. ()
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About The Iron Curtain

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Canada
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 6 languages: Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/16/1948
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Screenwriter: Milton Krims
Director of Photography: Charles G. Clarke
Composer: Alfred Newman
Production Designer: Lyle R. Wheeler
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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