Mission to Moscow
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Mission to Moscow is a 1943 propaganda film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1941 book by the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies.
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Joseph Stalin (Manart Kippen) greets U.S. ambassador Joseph E. Davies (Walter Huston) in Mission to Moscow.
Victims of Stalin's purge trials of the 1930s were portrayed as Fifth columnists.
Joseph E. Davies
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Joseph Edward Davies was an American lawyer and diplomat. He was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915 to be the first chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. From 1936 to 1938, Davies was t
Mission to Moscow
…Mission to Moscow is a 1943 propaganda film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1941 book by the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies. The movie chronicles the experiences of the second American ambassador to the Soviet Union and was made in response to a request by Franklin D…
Davies in 1939
Joseph Davies at Shenandoah inquiry, November 1925.
Davies with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin during his second "Mission to Moscow," May 1943.