Operation Manhunt
1954 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a code clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, bolted for the freedom of the West and took many secret documents with him that helped lay waste to a good portion of Russia's Western Hemisphere spy system. His headline-making defection later served as the basis for 20th Century-Fox's "The Iron Curtain" in 1948. This film, shot in a semi-documentary style, proports to tell how the Soviets "might" attempt to kill Gouzenko, then living in carefully disguised circumstances somewhere in Canada. Gouzenko, his face covered in a Ku Klux Klan-type hood---no symbolism intended---appears in the epilogue.
Direction Jack Alexander
Cast Harry Townes · Jacques Aubuchon · Will Kuluva · Irja Jensen · Robert Goodier · Alan Mills · Igor Gouzenko · Ovila Légaré
Screenplay Paul Monash
Cinematography Akos Farkas · Benoit Jobin
Original title Operation Manhunt
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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