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  • Operation Manhunt (1954)
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    77 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Operation Manhunt (1954)
Approved
77 min | Drama, History, Thriller

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 ...See moreIn 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 1947. 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, while Westbrook Van Voorhis, in his usual voice-of-doom "March of Time" style, narrates the opening sequence retelling the background and setting up the film's premise. Written by Les Adams See less
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David J. Cazalet (as David Cazalet)
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Oct 4, 1954 (United States)

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13 cast members
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Harry Townes
Igor Gouzenko Igor Gouzenko   See fewer
Irja Jensen
Katya Gouzenko Katya Gouzenko   See fewer
Robert Goodier
Victor Collier Victor Collier   See fewer
Alan Mills
Chertok (as Albert Miller) Chertok (as Albert Miller)   See fewer
Caren Shaffer
Jean Gouzenko Jean Gouzenko   See fewer
Kenneth Wolfe
Stephen Gouzenko Stephen Gouzenko   See fewer
Will Kuluva
Rostovich Rostovich   See fewer
Ovila Légaré
Inspector Boucher Inspector Boucher   See fewer
Igor Gouzenko
Self (epilogue) Self (epilogue)   See fewer
Westbrook Van Voorhis
Narrator, opening sequence Narrator, opening sequence   See fewer
Jeannine Beaubien
Miss Lawrence (uncredited) Miss Lawrence (uncredited)   See fewer
George Bloomfield
Local Montreal Agent (uncredited) Local Montreal Agent (uncredited)   See fewer
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