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The Iron Curtain

film by Wellman [1948]

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  • In William Wellman: Films of the 1940s

    …the average American town; and The Iron Curtain (1948) was a Cold War drama about Russian espionage in Canada. Arguably more accomplished than all three of those films was Yellow Sky (1948), an exciting western in which Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark faced off.

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