Mission to Moscow
- IMDb link: 0036166
- IMDb rating: 5.4 (1,178 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, War, History
- Director: Michael Curtiz
- Cast: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias and others
- Release date: 22 May 1943
- Release year: 1943
- Runtime: 124 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: train station, the white house washington d.c., ballerina, chinese ambassador, outbreak of world war two, friendship during wartime, prologue, ship's steward, ice skating, united states foreign policy
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Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
"Mission to Moscow" was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the political machinations in Moscow just before the start of the war and presents Stalin's Russia in a very favorable light. So much so, that the movie was cited years later by the House Un-American Activities Commission and was largely responsible for the screenwriter, Howard Koch being Blacklisted.
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