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Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart
Mission to Moscow © 1943 Turner Entertainment Co. Package Design © 2009 Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.
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 Academy Award? winner* 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.
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from Garden Grove, CA on 4/6/2010Comments about Mission To Moscow (DVD):
A historical gem that provides invaluable insights about American naivete about the Soviet terror. Perfect companion to Davies' book of the same title. For background see Dennis Dunn's book, Caught Between Roosevelt and Stalin, which has a chapter on Davies.
