Directed by:
Michael CurtizScreenplay:
Howard KochCinematography:
Bert GlennonComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker, Richard Travis, Victor Francen, Henry Daniell, Maria Palmer (more)Plots(1)
In their relentless battle against Hitler, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were comrades...or at least comrades-in-arms. Hollywood joined the fight with Mission to Moscow, based on Ambassador Joseph E. Davies' bestseller about his pre-World War II experiences in the Soviet Union. The film features Walter Huston as Davies, plus accomplished actors playing the headline-dominating figures of Churchill, Stalin, von Ribbentrop, Litvinov, Molotov and more. For its sometimes-sympathetic picture of Stalin's regime, the film sparked impassioned debate then and remains fascinating now, both for its insights into early American-Soviet relations and its urgent sense of the danger the emerging Axis Powers posed to the world. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Hans Schumm
German Empire
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
Barbara Everest
UK
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
El Cid (1961)
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Frank McLure
USA
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Egon Brecher
Austria-Hungary
Oliver Blake
USA
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Lumsden Hare
Ireland
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The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Jacqueline Dalya
USA
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Mighty Joe Young (1949)
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Maurice Cass
Russian Empire
Best movies:
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Kathleen Lockhart
UK
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Manuel París
Spain
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The Great Dictator (1940)
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Peter Chong
China
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Konstantin Shayne
Russian Empire
Best movies:
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Felix Basch
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Uncertain Glory (1944)
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Hooper Atchley
USA
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Constantine Romanoff
German Empire
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Howard M. Mitchell
USA
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Jack Kenney
Russian Empire
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Sam Savitsky
Russian Empire
Best movies:
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Emmett King
USA
Best movies:
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Henry Herbert
USA
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