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The Iron Curtain

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1948 | 87 min | Thriller

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

With a box office flop and little lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for anyone who likes to be kept guessing.
The mood
Tense.
The pace
Fast-moving, at 1 hr 27 min.
What might put you off
Made in 1948: an older pace and style.

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.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesNot counted

    Not measured yet: not enough ratings

  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Box office & staying powerWeak

    $2 million worldwide

  • Buzz & cultural impactBelow par

    About 12K people sought it out in the past year

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Cast & crew

Directed by William A. Wellman

  • Dana AndrewsIgor Gouzenko
  • Gene TierneyAnna Gouzenko
  • June HavocNina Karanova
  • Berry KroegerJohn Grubb, aka 'Paul'
  • Edna BestMrs. Albert Foster
  • Stefan SchnabelCol. Ilya Ranov
  • Nicholas JoyDr. Harold Preston Norman, aka 'Alec'
  • Eduard FranzMaj. Semyon Kulin
  • Frederic TozereCol. Aleksandr Trigorin (as Frederic Tozère)
  • Christopher OlsenAndrei Gouzenko