Word: gouzenkos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...September night in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko stuffed some damning papers inside his shirt, and walked out of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa to crack open Canada's spy case. Last week, with the movie The Iron Curtain (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) opening in a dozen Canadian cities and Gouzenko's new book This Was My Choice (Dent Ltd.; $3) going on sale, Canadians checked on the cast of characters in their spy drama...
Blond Igor Gouzenko, who is well off from the profits of writings and movies, still lives in a mountie-guarded hiding place, with his wife Anna and their three children...
...film is unfolded in the March-of-Time manner, implying authenticity. It tells of the young Soviet embassy clerk in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko, who finally sees that his colleagues are seeking to undermine a good country and are getting atomic secrets for reasons other than world peace. Gouzenko steals from the embassy some documentary proof of this and tries to warn the Canadian government. He falls in this, but Gouzenko, wife and child, are rescued in the nick of time from the Russians by the arrival of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. That is the end of the picture...
...telling of it is made vividly exciting by the use of such standard Hollywood gimmicks as the sliding panels, the catacombs beneath the embassy, the Mata Hari girls, and a big, fat, replusive character for the villain. (It should be pointed out too, that the actor playing Gouzenko is clearly a Michigan boy and is clearly the one to be rooting for. The cards, you see have been stacked in Hollywood...
...this were no more than a mere thriller, it would be quibbling to point out that a few patches are hard to swallow. One agent manages to decode a message while sitting in the back seat of a moving auto, at night. After betraying his government, Gouzenko seems astonished to hear what will happen to his family and his wife's (Gene Tierney), although he has lived in Soviet Russia most of his life, and is a seasoned professional agent. His reasons for changing sides are also rather thinly explored ; and some of the top spies are such blatant...