The Iron Curtain (1948) on Netflix
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Igor Gouzenko, an expert at deciphering codes, arrives at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1943. His superiors test his loyalty, and his wife, Anna, joins him there.
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Plot summary
Code expert Igor Gouzenko takes up a posting at the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1943, alongside Colonel Aleksandr Trigorin and Major Semyon Kulin. Warned that his work is top secret, he is tested by his superiors and stays loyal to the cause and to his wife. Anna Gouzenko arrives soon after and tells him she is pregnant. Trigorin and the security chief, Ilya Ranov, meet John Grubb, who founded the Canadian branch of the Communist Party, and they try to recruit Dr. Harold Norman, whose uranium is used for atomic energy.
Cast
- Anne Cursonas Helen Tweedy, aka 'Nellie'(uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Iron Curtain (1948)
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- Russian composers Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian and Nikolai Myaskovsky sued 20th Century-Fox in New York over the film's use of their music, which was public domain in the United States, and lost; the plaintiffs won a parallel case in France.
- Soviet sympathizers tried but failed to disrupt the film's location shooting in Ottawa, where Fox shot exteriors during a cold Canadian winter.
- Daryl F. Zanuck produced The Iron Curtain in response to Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, the House Un-American Activities Committee chairman, who claimed Hollywood did not make anti-communist films.
