The Iron Curtain (film)
| The Iron Curtain | |
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Screenplay by | Milton Krims |
| Based on | I Was Inside Stalin's Spy Ring 1947 articles in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan by Igor Gouzenko |
| Produced by | Sol C. Siegel |
| Starring | Dana Andrews Gene Tierney |
| Narrated by | Reed Hadley |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
| Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler |
| Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich Sergei Prokofiev Aram Khachaturian Nikolai Myaskovsky Alfred Newman (conductor) |
| Color process | Black and white |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2 million (US rentals) |
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 composers Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Aram Khachaturian, and Nikolai Myaskovsky unsuccessfully sued 20th Century-Fox, the film's distributor, in New York court, for using musical works of theirs 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.