Mission to Moscow

USA, 1943, 124 min

Directed by:

Michael Curtiz

Screenplay:

Howard Koch

Cinematography:

Bert Glennon

Composer:

Max Steiner

Cast:

Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias, Gene Lockhart, Eleanor Parker, Richard Travis, Victor Francen, Henry Daniell, Maria Palmer (more)
(more professions)

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)