The Iron Curtain (film)

The Iron Curtain
Directed by	William Wellman
Produced by	Sol C. Siegel
Screenplay by	Milton Krims
Based on	I Was Inside Stalin's Spy Ring 1947 articles in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan by Igor Gouzenko
Starring	Dana Andrews Gene Tierney
Narrated by	Reed Hadley
Music by	Alfred Newman
Cinematography	Charles G. Clarke
Edited by	Louis R. Loeffler
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date	May 12, 1948
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2 million (US rentals)

The Iron Curtain is a 1948 black-and-white thriller film starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, directed by William Wellman. The film was based on the memoirs of Igor Gouzenko. Principal photography was done on location in Ottawa, 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 the film's distributor, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, in New York court, for using musical works of his that had fallen into the public domain.

Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), an expert at deciphering codes, comes to the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada in wartime 1943, along with a Soviet military colonel, Trigorin (Frederic Tozere), and a major, Kulin (Eduard Franz), to set up a base of operations.

Warned of the sensitive and top-secret nature of his work, Igor is put to a test by his superiors, who have the seductive Nina Karanova (June Havoc) try her wiles on him. Igor proves loyal to not only the cause but to his wife, Anna (Gene Tierney), who arrives in Ottawa shortly thereafter with the news that she is pregnant.

Trigorin and his security chief, Ranov (Stefan Schnabel), meet with John Grubb (Berry Kroeger), the founder of Canada's branch of the Communist Party. One of their primary targets is uranium being used for atomic energy by Dr. Harold Norman (Nicholas Joy), whom they try to recruit.

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