The Iron Curtain

7/9/2022

Dana Andrews is Igor Gouzenko, posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa as a cypher clerk. He has no difficulty with his orders to keep himself to himself and to be polite but distant from his Canadian hosts. This becomes more problematic when he is joined by his wife Anna (Gene Tierney) who has more difficulty with the isolation their existence brings; particularly when they have a son so shorty after the end of the War, he decides that the grand design being proposed by his superiors is not for him, or his family, so decides to amass a collection of crucial documents from his legation and defect - illuminating a complex network of secret Soviet activities that penetrate to the heart of the Canadian military and political systems. His problem is - who is going to believe him; and can he ens