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
Walter Huston
Canada
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Ann Harding
USA
Best movies:
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Oskar Homolka
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Woman Alone (1936)
George Tobias
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
Gene Lockhart
Canada
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Madame Curie (1943)
Eleanor Parker
USA
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
Caged (1950)
Detective Story (1951)
Richard Travis
USA
Best movies:
Dive Bomber (1941)
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
Victor Francen
Belgium
Best movies:
Madame Curie (1943)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Henry Daniell
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Song of Love (1947)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Maria Palmer
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Web (1947)
Lady on a Train (1945)
Days of Glory (1944)
Vladimir Sokoloff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Love Crazy (1941)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Maurice Schwartz
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Salome (1953)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
Cyd Charisse
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Deep in My Heart (1954)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Alan Hale
USA
Best movies:
It Happened One Night (1934)
Robin Hood (1922)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Frank Reicher
German Empire
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Roman Bohnen
USA
Best movies:
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Song of Love (1947)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Virginia Christine
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Alexander Granach
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Nosferatu (1922)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Comradeship (1931)
Glenn Strange
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Brute Force (1947)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Tom Tully
USA
Best movies:
Ten North Frederick (1958)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
The Moon Is Blue (1953)