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class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Curtiz" title="Michael Curtiz">Michael Curtiz</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Howard_Koch_(screenwriter)" title="Howard Koch (screenwriter)">Howard Koch</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Mission to Moscow</i><br />(1941 book)<br />by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_E._Davies" title="Joseph E. Davies">Joseph E. Davies</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Buckner" title="Robert Buckner">Robert Buckner</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Huston" title="Walter Huston">Walter Huston</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Ann_Harding" title="Ann Harding">Ann Harding</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Oskar_Homolka" class="mw-redirect" title="Oskar Homolka">Oskar Homolka</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bert_Glennon" title="Bert Glennon">Bert Glennon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Owen_Marks" title="Owen Marks">Owen Marks</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Max_Steiner" title="Max Steiner">Max Steiner</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;">Warner Bros.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>May 22, 1943<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1943-05-22</span>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">124 minutes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Budget</th><td class="infobox-data">$1,516,000<sup id="cite_ref-warners_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warners-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Box office</th><td class="infobox-data">$1.2 million (US rentals)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or $1,649,000 worldwide<sup id="cite_ref-warners_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warners-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Mission to Moscow</b></i> is a 1943 <a href="/wiki/Propaganda_film" title="Propaganda film">propaganda film</a> directed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Curtiz" title="Michael Curtiz">Michael Curtiz</a>, based on the 1941 book by the former U.S. ambassador to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_E._Davies" title="Joseph E. Davies">Joseph E. Davies</a>. </p><p>The movie chronicles the experiences of the second American ambassador to the Soviet Union and was made in response to a request by <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>. It was made during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, when the Americans and Soviets were allies, and takes a sympathetic view of not only the USSR in general but of Stalinism and <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Stalinist repressions</a> in particular. For that reason, it was scrutinized by the <a href="/wiki/House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities" class="mw-redirect" title="House Committee on Un-American Activities">House Committee on Un-American Activities</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Source_book">Source book</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Source book"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film is based on Joseph E. Davies' memoir<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> about his time as the United States ambassador to the Soviet Union from November 1936 to June 1938. It was published by <a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schuster</a> in 1941 and was a critical and commercial success—700,000 copies were sold, and the book was translated into thirteen languages.<sup id="cite_ref-koppes_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-koppes-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stalin_greets_davies_in_mission_to_moscow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Stalin_greets_davies_in_mission_to_moscow.jpg/220px-Stalin_greets_davies_in_mission_to_moscow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Stalin_greets_davies_in_mission_to_moscow.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="314" data-file-height="238" /></a><figcaption>Joseph Stalin (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Manart_Kippen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manart Kippen (page does not exist)">Manart Kippen</a>) greets U.S. ambassador Joseph E. Davies (<a href="/wiki/Walter_Huston" title="Walter Huston">Walter Huston</a>) in <i>Mission to Moscow</i>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The film chronicles ambassador Davies' impressions of the Soviet Union, his meetings with Stalin, and his overall opinion of the Soviet Union and its ties with the United States. It is made in a <i>faux-documentary</i> style, beginning with Davies meeting with president <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> to discuss his new appointment as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union. It continues to show the Davies' family's trip by boat to Moscow, with stops in Europe. </p><p>While in Moscow, the movie alternates between Davies' interpretations of <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Politics of the Soviet Union">Soviet politics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a> and his family's impressions of Russian life. It includes a memorable scene with Mrs. Davies at a Russian department store. The movie gives Davies' perspective on various points in Soviet history. It begins with the real ambassador Davies stating, while seated in an armchair, "No leaders of a nation have been so misrepresented and misunderstood as those in the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Government of the Soviet Union">Soviet government</a> during those critical years between the two world wars."<sup id="cite_ref-movie_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-movie-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film then cuts to Walter Huston (portraying Davies) and begins its narrative. </p><p>Davies is shown witnessing the show trials conducted by Stalin in the 1930s (known as the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow Trials">Moscow Trials</a>), which are portrayed as trials of <a href="/wiki/Fifth_columnist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifth columnist">fifth columnists</a> working for <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Imperial Japan</a>. </p><p>The voice-overs continue throughout the film, interspersing storyline with Davies' opinions. The film's narrative focuses on the journey of Davies and his family. First, their physical journey from the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. And, second, their less tangible journey from skeptics of communism and the Soviet Union into converts and enthusiasts. The narrative of the movie and the book are almost identical. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Purge_trials_scene_mission_to_moscow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5f/Purge_trials_scene_mission_to_moscow.jpg/220px-Purge_trials_scene_mission_to_moscow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Purge_trials_scene_mission_to_moscow.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="318" data-file-height="230" /></a><figcaption>Victims of <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Stalin's purge</a> trials of the 1930s were portrayed as <a href="/wiki/Fifth_column" title="Fifth column">Fifth columnists</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;min-width: min(25em, 100%);"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Huston" title="Walter Huston">Walter Huston</a> as Ambassador <a href="/wiki/Joseph_E._Davies" title="Joseph E. Davies">Joseph E. Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Harding" title="Ann Harding">Ann Harding</a> as <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Merriweather_Post" title="Marjorie Merriweather Post">Mrs. Marjorie Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Homolka" title="Oscar Homolka">Oscar Homolka</a> as <a href="/wiki/Maxim_Litvinov" title="Maxim Litvinov">Maxim Litvinov</a>, Foreign Minister</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Tobias" title="George Tobias">George Tobias</a> as Freddie</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Lockhart" title="Gene Lockhart">Gene Lockhart</a> as Premier <a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov" title="Vyacheslav Molotov">Vyacheslav Molotov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Parker" title="Eleanor Parker">Eleanor Parker</a> as Emlen Davies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Travis_(actor)" title="Richard Travis (actor)">Richard Travis</a> as Paul</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helmut_Dantine" title="Helmut Dantine">Helmut Dantine</a> as Major Kamenev</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Francen" title="Victor Francen">Victor Francen</a> as <a href="/wiki/Andrey_Vyshinsky" title="Andrey Vyshinsky">Vyshinsky</a>, chief trial prosecutor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Daniell" title="Henry Daniell">Henry Daniell</a> as Minister <a href="/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop" title="Joachim von Ribbentrop">von Ribbentrop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Everest" title="Barbara Everest">Barbara Everest</a> as Mrs. Litvinov</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Field_Malone" title="Dudley Field Malone">Dudley Field Malone</a> as <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Bohnen" title="Roman Bohnen">Roman Bohnen</a> as Mr. Krestinsky</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Palmer" title="Maria Palmer">Maria Palmer</a> as Tanya Litvinov</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moroni_Olsen" title="Moroni Olsen">Moroni Olsen</a> as Colonel Faymonville</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor_Watson" title="Minor Watson">Minor Watson</a> as Loy Henderson</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Sokoloff" title="Vladimir Sokoloff">Vladimir Sokoloff</a> as <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Kalinin" title="Mikhail Kalinin">Mikhail Kalinin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Schwartz" title="Maurice Schwartz">Maurice Schwartz</a> as Dr. Botkin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Hausman" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernst Hausman">Ernst Hausman</a> as Ship's Steward</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wengraf" title="John Wengraf">John Wengraf</a> as <a href="/wiki/Wac%C5%82aw_Grzybowski" title="Wacław Grzybowski">Polish Ambassador Grzybowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olaf_Hytten" title="Olaf Hytten">Olaf Hytten</a> as Parliament Member (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Reicher" title="Frank Reicher">Frank Reicher</a> as General von Koestrich (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Van_Sloan" title="Edward Van Sloan">Edward Van Sloan</a> as German Diplomat in Berlin (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Walker_(actor)" title="Ray Walker (actor)">Ray Walker</a> as Raymond, Davies' Butler (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frieda_Inescort" title="Frieda Inescort">Frieda Inescort</a> as <a href="/wiki/Polina_Zhemchuzhina" title="Polina Zhemchuzhina">Madame Molotov</a> (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyd_Charisse" title="Cyd Charisse">Cyd Charisse</a> as <a href="/wiki/Galina_Ulanova" title="Galina Ulanova">Galina Ulanova</a>, Ballerina (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lumsden_Hare" title="Lumsden Hare">Lumsden Hare</a> as <a href="/wiki/Aretas_Akers-Douglas,_2nd_Viscount_Chilston" title="Aretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston">Lord Chilston</a> (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Katch" title="Kurt Katch">Kurt Katch</a> as General <a href="/wiki/Semen_Timoshenko" class="mw-redirect" title="Semen Timoshenko">Semen Timoshenko</a> (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Lloyd" title="Doris Lloyd">Doris Lloyd</a> as <a href="/wiki/Clementine_Churchill" title="Clementine Churchill">Clementine Churchill</a> (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Shayne" title="Konstantin Shayne">Konstantin Shayne</a> as <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bukharin" title="Nikolai Bukharin">Nikolai Bukharin</a> (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Triesault" title="Ivan Triesault">Ivan Triesault</a> as Marshal <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tukhachevsky" title="Mikhail Tukhachevsky">Mikhail Tukhachevsky</a> (uncredited)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Trowbridge" title="Charles Trowbridge">Charles Trowbridge</a> as <a href="/wiki/Cordell_Hull" title="Cordell Hull">Cordell Hull</a> (uncredited)</li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Production">Production</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Production"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While the storylines of both the book and movie are practically identical, the movie uses cinematic techniques and dialogue changes to overstate or change some controversial points in the book—changes that were made with Davies' approval. Although the first draft was written by <a href="/wiki/Erskine_Caldwell" title="Erskine Caldwell">Erskine Caldwell</a>, the final screenplay adaptation of the book was by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Koch_(screenwriter)" title="Howard Koch (screenwriter)">Howard Koch</a>. Its musical score was by <a href="/wiki/Max_Steiner" title="Max Steiner">Max Steiner</a>, its cinematography by <a href="/wiki/Bert_Glennon" title="Bert Glennon">Bert Glennon</a>. The extensive montage sequences, which draw on footage from Soviet archives, were supervised by <a href="/wiki/Don_Siegel" title="Don Siegel">Don Siegel</a>. The picture was produced and distributed by <a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> Ambassador Davies appears and introduces the film as himself; he is then portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Huston" title="Walter Huston">Walter Huston</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ann_Harding" title="Ann Harding">Ann Harding</a> plays his wife Marjorie Davies, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Lockhart" title="Gene Lockhart">Gene Lockhart</a> is Soviet foreign minister <a href="/wiki/Vyacheslav_Molotov" title="Vyacheslav Molotov">Vyacheslav Molotov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Daniell" title="Henry Daniell">Henry Daniell</a> his German counterpart <a href="/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop" title="Joachim von Ribbentrop">Joachim von Ribbentrop</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dudley_Field_Malone" title="Dudley Field Malone">Dudley Field Malone</a> plays <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>. Most parts, bar those of Davies' family, are taken by character actors who look like the famous politicians they are representing. </p><p>The film was the first pro-Soviet Hollywood film of its time and was followed by others, including <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn" title="Samuel Goldwyn">Samuel Goldwyn</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_North_Star_(1943_film)" title="The North Star (1943 film)">The North Star</a></i> (1943), <a href="/wiki/MGM" class="mw-redirect" title="MGM">MGM</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Russia" title="Song of Russia">Song of Russia</a></i> (1944), <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Russian_Girls" title="Three Russian Girls">Three Russian Girls</a></i> (1943), <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Boy_from_Stalingrad" title="The Boy from Stalingrad">The Boy from Stalingrad</a></i> (1943) and <i><a href="/wiki/Counter-Attack" title="Counter-Attack">Counter-Attack</a></i> (1945). Roosevelt himself approved the creation of the film, even meeting with Davies several times (July, October, and November 1942 and March 1943) during the film's production to discuss its progress.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As part of his contract with Warner Bros., Davies had absolute control over the script and could veto any dialogue not to his liking.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Curtiz wanted <a href="/wiki/Fredric_March" title="Fredric March">Fredric March</a> to play Joseph E. Davies, while <a href="/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland" title="Olivia de Havilland">Olivia de Havilland</a> auditioned to play Marjorie Davies. <a href="/wiki/Pat_O%27Brien_(actor)" title="Pat O'Brien (actor)">Pat O'Brien</a> was cast as a <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> priest, while <a href="/wiki/Irene_Manning" title="Irene Manning">Irene Manning</a> was cast as a Moscow Opera House singer. Both characters were cut from the final film.<sup id="cite_ref-movie_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-movie-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During production, <a href="/wiki/Office_of_War_Information" class="mw-redirect" title="Office of War Information">Office of War Information</a> officials reviewed screenplay revisions and prints of the film and commented on them. By reviewing the scripts and prints, OWI officials exercised authority over <i>Mission to Moscow</i>, ensuring that it promoted the "<a href="/wiki/United_Nations_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations (World War II)">United Nations</a>" theme. An administration official advised the film's producers to offer explanations for the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Nazi-Soviet Pact</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Winter_War" title="Winter War">Red Army's invasion of Finland</a>. After reading the final script, in November 1942 the OWI expressed its hope that <i>Mission to Moscow</i> would "make one of the most remarkable pictures of this war" and "a very great contribution to the war information program".<sup id="cite_ref-Bennett,_p._506_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bennett,_p._506-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The OWI report on <i>Mission to Moscow</i> concluded that it would </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>[B]e a most convincing means of helping Americans to understand their Russian allies. Every effort has been made to show that Russians and Americans are not so very different after all. The Russians are shown to eat well and live comfortably, which will be a surprise to many Americans. The leaders of both countries desire peace and both possess a blunt honesty of address and purpose ... One of the best services performed by this picture is the presentation of Russian leaders, not as wild-eyed madmen, but as far-seeing, earnest, responsible statesmen. They have proved very good neighbors, and this picture will help to explain why, as well as to encourage faith in the feasibility of post-war cooperation.<sup id="cite_ref-Bennett,_p._506_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bennett,_p._506-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Government information specialists were equally enthusiastic about the completed print. Judging it "a magnificent contribution" to wartime propaganda, the OWI believed the picture would "do much to bring understanding of Soviet international policy in the past years and dispel the fears which many honest persons have felt with regard to our alliance with Russia". That was particularly so since "the possibility for the friendly alliance of the Capitalist United States and the Socialist Russia is shown to be firmly rooted in the mutual desire for peace of the two great countries".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prior to its Russian release, the film was screened for <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> at a banquet at the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Kremlin" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow Kremlin">Moscow Kremlin</a> attended by Joseph Davies and the <a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_Kingdom,_Moscow" title="Embassy of the United Kingdom, Moscow">British legation in Moscow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_accuracy">Historical accuracy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Historical accuracy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film, made during World War II, shows the Soviet Union under <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> in a positive light. Completed in late April 1943, the film is, in the words of <a href="/wiki/Robert_Buckner" title="Robert Buckner">Robert Buckner</a>, the film's producer, "an expedient lie for political purposes, glossily covering up important facts with full or partial knowledge of their false presentation".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The movie gives a one-sided view of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Moscow trials</a>, rationalizes Moscow's participation in the <a href="/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact" title="Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact">Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Finland" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet invasion of Finland">Soviet invasion of Finland</a>, and portrays the Soviet Union as a state that was moving towards a democratic model, a Soviet Union committed to <a href="/wiki/Internationalism_(politics)" title="Internationalism (politics)">internationalism</a>. The book was vague on the guilt or innocence of defendants in the Moscow trials, but the film portrays the defendants in the Moscow trials as guilty<sup id="cite_ref-brendonp_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brendonp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Davies' view. It also showed some of the purges as an attempt by Stalin to rid his country of pro-<a href="/wiki/Axis_powers" title="Axis powers">Axis</a> "fifth columnists".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some "fifth columnists" are described in the film as acting on behalf of Germany and Japan. The film "defends the purges, complete with a quarter-hour dedicated to arguing that <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> was a Nazi agent".<sup id="cite_ref-Reason_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reason-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the film, Davies proclaims at the end of the trial scene: "Based on twenty years' trial practice, I'd be inclined to believe these confessions."<sup id="cite_ref-movie_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-movie-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are <a href="/wiki/Anachronism" title="Anachronism">anachronisms</a> in the film—for example, the trials of <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Tukhachevsky" title="Mikhail Tukhachevsky">Mikhail Tukhachevsky</a> (June 1937) and <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bukharin" title="Nikolai Bukharin">Nikolai Bukharin</a> (March 1938) are depicted as occurring at the same time. Tukhachevsky and <a href="/wiki/Semyon_Timoshenko" title="Semyon Timoshenko">Semyon Timoshenko</a> are shown as <a href="/wiki/Marshal_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Marshal of the Soviet Union">marshals of the Soviet Union</a> at the same time, but Tukhachevsky was executed in June 1937 and Timoshenko was not made marshal until 1940. </p><p>According to film historian <a href="/wiki/Robert_Osborne" title="Robert Osborne">Robert Osborne</a>, "At the time this movie was made it had one of the largest casts ever assembled ... was very successful ... When it was shown in Moscow, despite all the good will, people who saw it considered it a comedy—its portrayal of average, everyday life in the Soviet Union apparently way off the mark for 1943".<sup id="cite_ref-rosborne_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rosborne-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "When the <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composer</a> <a href="/wiki/Dimitri_Shostakovich" class="mw-redirect" title="Dimitri Shostakovich">Dimitri Shostakovich</a> saw it, he observed that no <a href="/wiki/Soviet" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet">Soviet</a> <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> agency would dare to present such outrageous <a href="/wiki/Lie" title="Lie">lies</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some reviewers despised the film<sup id="cite_ref-Reason_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reason-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but there have been exceptions. The critic for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, future McCarthy opponent <a href="/wiki/Bosley_Crowther" title="Bosley Crowther">Bosley Crowther</a>, found the film's attempts to rehabilitate Stalin believable: </p> <blockquote><p>Based entirely on the personal observations reported by Mr. Davies in his book, it will obviously prove offensive to those elements which have challenged his views. Particularly will it anger the so-called <a href="/wiki/Trotskyism" title="Trotskyism">Trotskyites</a> with its visual re-enactment of the famous "Moscow trials"...For it puts into the record for millions of moviegoers to grasp an admission that the many "purged" generals and other leaders were conspirators in a plot.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Box-office">Box-office</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Box-office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike the book it was based on, the film was not a success at the box-office. Although Warner Bros. spent $250,000 advertising the film before its release on April 30, 1943, the company lost around $600,000 overall at the final accounting.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $1,017,000 domestically and $632,000 foreign.<sup id="cite_ref-warners_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-warners-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Mission to Moscow</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s numerous factual inaccuracies and outright false portrayals of Soviet leaders and events resulted in criticism from those on both the left and the right of the political spectrum.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The film was nominated for an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Production_Design" title="Academy Award for Best Production Design">Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration in a Black-and-White film</a> (<a href="/wiki/Carl_Jules_Weyl" title="Carl Jules Weyl">Carl Jules Weyl</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_James_Hopkins" title="George James Hopkins">George James Hopkins</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-NYTmoviedetails_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTmoviedetails-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later, film critic <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Maltin" title="Leonard Maltin">Leonard Maltin</a> gave the film three and a half stars.<sup id="cite_ref-Reason_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reason-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversy">Controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Controversy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The film's pro-Soviet tone was criticized in the United States even at the time of its release. <a href="/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a> wrote an op-ed to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> calling <i>Mission to Moscow</i> "the first instance in our country of totalitarian propaganda for mass consumption--a propaganda which falsifies history through distortion, omission or pure invention of facts." The <a href="/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a> called it "<a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a> propaganda." At the same time, the film initially had its defenders. <a href="/wiki/Herman_Shumlin" title="Herman Shumlin">Herman Shumlin</a> called the film "an instrument for understanding and friendship between the Allies." Senator <a href="/wiki/Sheridan_Downey" title="Sheridan Downey">Sheridan Downey</a> read a letter from a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Sergeant" title="Sergeant">sergeant</a> serving in the <a href="/wiki/Italian_campaign_(World_War_II)" title="Italian campaign (World War II)">Italian campaign</a> into the <i><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Record" title="Congressional Record">Congressional Record</a></i> noting that <a href="/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany" title="Propaganda in Nazi Germany">Nazi propaganda</a> he had seen criticized the Soviet Union in similar terms to American critiques of the film.<sup id="cite_ref-movie_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-movie-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities" class="mw-redirect" title="House Committee on Un-American Activities">House Committee on Un-American Activities</a> would later cite <i>Mission to Moscow</i> as one of three examples of pro-Soviet films made by Hollywood, the other two being <a href="/wiki/The_North_Star_(1943_film)" title="The North Star (1943 film)"><i>The North Star</i></a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Song_of_Russia" title="Song of Russia">Song of Russia</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has been called "unquestionably the most blatant piece of pro-Stalinist propaganda ever offered by the American mass media".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> In 1950, the film became an object of attention by members of Congress, who saw it as pro-Soviet propaganda. Davies was largely silent on his role in the film, though he did submit a letter to the <a href="/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" title="House Un-American Activities Committee">House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)</a> in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-culbert_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-culbert-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Called to testify under oath before Congress, <a href="/wiki/Jack_L._Warner" title="Jack L. Warner">Jack L. Warner</a> at first claimed that the film was made at the request of Davies, who with the approval of FDR had asked Warner Bros. to make the film (this version of the facts was confirmed by Davies' letter as well).<sup id="cite_ref-culbert_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-culbert-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said:<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The picture was made when our country was fighting for its existence, with Russia as one of our allies. It was made to fulfill the same wartime purpose for which we made such other pictures as <i><a href="/wiki/Air_Force_(film)" title="Air Force (film)">Air Force</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/This_Is_the_Army" title="This Is the Army">This Is the Army</a></i>...and a great many more. If making <i>Mission to Moscow</i> in 1942 was subversive activity, then the <a href="/wiki/Liberty_ship" title="Liberty ship">American Liberty ships</a> which carried <a href="/wiki/Lend-Lease" title="Lend-Lease">food and guns</a> to Russian allies and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_in_World_War_II" title="United States Navy in World War II">American naval vessels</a> which <a href="/wiki/Convoy" title="Convoy">convoyed</a> them were likewise engaged in subversive activities. This picture was made only to help a desperate war effort and not for posterity.</p></blockquote><p> Warner later recanted this version, stating that <a href="/wiki/Harry_Warner" title="Harry Warner">Harry Warner</a> first read <i>Mission to Moscow</i> and then contacted Davies to discuss movie rights.<sup id="cite_ref-culbert_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-culbert-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Mission to Moscow</i> was one of hundreds of pre-1948 Warner Bros. movies sold for television screenings, but was never included in domestic syndication packages put together by its then-owner, <a href="/wiki/United_Artists" title="United Artists">United Artists</a>. It had its <a href="/wiki/Television_in_the_United_States" title="Television in the United States">U.S. TV</a> debut on <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> in the 1970s and has been shown sporadically on <a href="/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">Turner Classic Movies</a>, featured in the January 2010 series "Shadows of Russia" and most recently broadcast on May 30, 2024. The film's ownership has returned to Warner Bros. via its purchase of <a href="/wiki/Turner_Entertainment" title="Turner Entertainment">Turner Entertainment</a> and the title made its DVD debut in October, 2009 as part of the <a href="/wiki/Warner_Archive_Collection" title="Warner Archive Collection">Warner Archive Collection</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Duranty" title="Walter Duranty">Walter Duranty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Fischer" title="Louis Fischer">Louis Fischer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lion_Feuchtwanger" title="Lion Feuchtwanger">Lion Feuchtwanger</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-warners-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-warners_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-warners_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-warners_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1-31 p 23 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Staff (January 5, 1944) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/variety153-1944-01#page/n51/mode/2up">"Top Grossers of the Season"</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i> p.54</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.org/details/missiontomoscow035156mbp">"Mission To Moscow"</a>. Victor Gollancz Limited. August 27, 1945<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 27,</span> 2022</span> – via Internet Archive.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Mission+To+Moscow&rft.pub=Victor+Gollancz+Limited&rft.date=1945-08-27&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmissiontomoscow035156mbp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMission+to+Moscow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-koppes-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-koppes_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Koppes, Clayton R. and Black, Gregory D. (1987) <i>Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies</i>. Berkeley, <a href="/wiki/University_of_California_Press" title="University of California Press">University of California Press</a>. p.190.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-movie-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-movie_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-movie_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-movie_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-movie_5-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Mission to Moscow</i>, produced by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Buckner" title="Robert Buckner">Robert Buckner</a>, 123 minutes, Warner Bros., screenplay by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Koch_(screenwriter)" title="Howard Koch (screenwriter)">Howard Koch</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bennett, pp.498–499</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Culbert, p.17</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bennett,_p._506-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bennett,_p._506_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bennett,_p._506_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bennett, p.506</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bennett, p.507</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDowns1943" class="citation news cs1">Downs, Bill (June 14, 1943). "Giggles in Moscow". <i><a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a></i>. p. 88. <q>The Russian premier of <i>Mission</i> was staged at the Kremlin, following a banquet for an international audience of diplomatic elect. 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Accessed July 2, 2013.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Barmine, Alexander (1945) <i>One Who Survived: The Life Story of a Russian Under the Soviets</i>, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; reprinted Read Books (2007). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4067-4207-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-4067-4207-4">1-4067-4207-4</a>, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4067-4207-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4067-4207-7">978-1-4067-4207-7</a>.</li> <li>Bennett, Todd (2001) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.oah.org/special-issues/teaching/2001_09/article.pdf">"Culture, Power, and Mission to Moscow: Film and Soviet-American Relations during World War II"</a>, <i>The Journal of American History</i>, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 489–518.</li> <li>Blahova, Jindriska. "A Merry Twinkle in Stalin's Eye: Eric Johnston, Hollywood, and Eastern Europe." <i>Film History: An International Journal</i> 22.3 (2010): 347-359. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/download/4988812/Bl_hov___Jind_i_ka._A_Merry_Twinkle_in_Stalin_s_Eye.Film_History.pdf">online</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged October 2023">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></li> <li>*Culbert, David H. "Revisiting a Stalinist Puzzle: Mission to Moscow." <i>American Communist History</i> (2013) 12#2 pp 117–135.</li> <li>Culbert, David H. (ed.) (1980) <i>Mission to Moscow</i>, Wisconsin/Warner Bros. 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"Brassbound G-Men and celluloid reds: The FBI's search for communist propaganda in wartime Hollywood." <i>Film History</i> (2008) 20#4: 412-436. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://history.msu.edu/files/2010/04/Sbardellati1.pdf">online</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mission_to_Moscow&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/18px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/24px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mission_to_Moscow" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Mission to Moscow">Mission to Moscow</a> at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036166/"><i>Mission to Moscow</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q894846#P345" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1366/enwp"><i>Mission to Moscow</i></a> at the <a href="/wiki/Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">TCM Movie Database</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v102572"><i>Mission to Moscow</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/AllMovie" title="AllMovie">AllMovie</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q894846#P1562" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/569"><i>Mission to Moscow</i></a> at the <em><a href="/wiki/AFI_Catalog_of_Feature_Films" title="AFI Catalog of Feature Films">AFI Catalog of Feature Films</a></em> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q894846#P3593" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160311180725/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b08c861"><i>Mission to Moscow</i></a> at the <a href="/wiki/British_Film_Institute" title="British Film Institute">British Film Institute</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - 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title="Michael Curtiz">Michael Curtiz</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1910s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Bohemian_(1912_film)" title="The Last Bohemian (1912 film)">The Last Bohemian</a></i> (1912)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Today_and_Tomorrow_(1912_film)" title="Today and Tomorrow (1912 film)">Today and Tomorrow</a></i> (1912)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Captive_Souls" title="Captive Souls">Captive Souls</a></i> (1913)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/My_Husband%27s_Getting_Married" title="My Husband's Getting Married">My Husband's Getting Married</a></i> (1913)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Exile_(1914_film)" title="The Exile (1914 film)">The Exile</a></i> (1914)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Borrowed_Babies" title="The Borrowed Babies">The Borrowed Babies</a></i> (1914)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Princess_in_a_Nightrobe" title="The Princess in a Nightrobe">The Princess in a Nightrobe</a></i> (1914)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_the_Night_(film)" title="Prisoner of the Night (film)">Prisoner of the Night</a></i> (1914)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A1nk_B%C3%A1n_(film)" title="Bánk Bán (film)">Bánk Bán</a></i> (1914)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Golddigger_(film)" title="Golddigger (film)">Golddigger</a></i> (1914)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Seven_of_Spades_(film)" title="Seven of Spades (film)">Seven of Spades</a></i> (1916)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Strength_of_the_Fatherland" title="The Strength of the Fatherland">The Strength of the Fatherland</a></i> (1916)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Karthauzer" title="The Karthauzer">The Karthauzer</a></i> (1916)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Black_Rainbow" title="The Black Rainbow">The Black Rainbow</a></i> (1916)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wolf_(1916_film)" title="The Wolf (1916 film)">The Wolf</a></i> (1916)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Medic_(1916_film)" title="The Medic (1916 film)">The Medic</a></i> (1916)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mr._Doctor_(film)" title="Mr. Doctor (film)">Mr. Doctor</a></i> (1916)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Master_Zoard" title="Master Zoard">Master Zoard</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Samson" title="The Red Samson">The Red Samson</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Last_Dawn" title="The Last Dawn">The Last Dawn</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Spring_in_Winter" title="Spring in Winter">Spring in Winter</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Tartar_Invasion" title="Tartar Invasion">Tartar Invasion</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Secret_of_St._Job_Forest" title="Secret of St. Job Forest">Secret of St. Job Forest</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Nobody%27s_Son_(film)" title="Nobody's Son (film)">Nobody's Son</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Charlatan_(1917_film)" title="The Charlatan (1917 film)">The Charlatan</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Penny%27s_History" title="A Penny's History">A Penny's History</a></i> (1917)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fishing_Bell" title="The Fishing Bell">The Fishing Bell</a></i> 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Devil (1918 Hungarian film)">The Devil</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Lulu_(1918_film)" title="Lulu (1918 film)">Lulu</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Lu,_the_Coquette" title="Lu, the Coquette">Lu, the Coquette</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/J%C3%BAd%C3%A1s" title="Júdás">Júdás</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Ugly_Boy" title="The Ugly Boy">The Ugly Boy</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Alraune_(1918_film)" title="Alraune (1918 film)">Alraune</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/99-es_sz%C3%A1m%C3%BA_b%C3%A9rkocsi" title="99-es számú bérkocsi">99-es számú bérkocsi</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunflower_Woman" title="The Sunflower Woman">The Sunflower Woman</a></i> (1918)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a 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href="/wiki/Nameless_(1923_film)" title="Nameless (1923 film)">Nameless</a></i> (1923)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Deadly_Game_(1924_film)" title="A Deadly Game (1924 film)">A Deadly Game</a></i> (1924)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/General_Babka_(1924_film)" title="General Babka (1924 film)">General Babka</a></i> (1924)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Harun_al_Raschid_(film)" title="Harun al Raschid (film)">Harun al Raschid</a></i> (1924)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Moon_of_Israel" title="The Moon of Israel">The Moon of Israel</a></i> (1924)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Das_Spielzeug_von_Paris" title="Das Spielzeug von Paris">Red Heels</a></i> (1925)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Cab_No._13" title="Cab No. 13">Cab No. 13</a></i> (1926)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Butterfly" title="The Golden Butterfly">The Golden Butterfly</a></i> (1926)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Third_Degree_(1926_film)" title="The Third Degree (1926 film)">The Third Degree</a></i> (1926)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Million_Bid_(1927_film)" title="A Million Bid (1927 film)">A Million Bid</a></i> (1927)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Desired_Woman" title="The Desired Woman">The Desired Woman</a></i> (1927)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Good_Time_Charley" title="Good Time Charley">Good Time Charley</a></i> (1927)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Tenderloin_(film)" title="Tenderloin (film)">Tenderloin</a></i> (1928)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark_(1928_film)" title="Noah's Ark (1928 film)">Noah's Ark</a></i> (1928)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Glad_Rag_Doll_(film)" title="Glad Rag Doll (film)">Glad Rag Doll</a></i> (1929)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Madonna_of_Avenue_A" title="Madonna of Avenue A">Madonna of Avenue A</a></i> (1929)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Gamblers_(1929_film)" title="The Gamblers (1929 film)">The Gamblers</a></i> (1929)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Hearts_in_Exile_(1929_film)" title="Hearts in Exile (1929 film)">Hearts in Exile</a></i> (1929)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1930s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mammy_(1930_film)" title="Mammy (1930 film)">Mammy</a></i> (1930)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Under_a_Texas_Moon" title="Under a Texas Moon">Under a Texas Moon</a></i> (1930)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Matrimonial_Bed" title="The Matrimonial Bed">The Matrimonial Bed</a></i> (1930)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Bright_Lights_(1930_film)" title="Bright Lights (1930 film)">Bright Lights</a></i> (1930)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/A_Soldier%27s_Plaything" title="A Soldier's Plaything">A Soldier's Plaything</a></i> (1930)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/River%27s_End_(1930_film)" title="River's End (1930 film)">River's End</a></i> (1930)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Demon_of_the_Sea" title="Demon of the Sea">Demon of the Sea</a></i> (1931)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/God%27s_Gift_to_Women" title="God's Gift to Women">God's Gift to Women</a></i> (1931)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mad_Genius" title="The Mad Genius">The Mad Genius</a></i> (1931)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a 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class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_(1936_film)" title="The Walking Dead (1936 film)">The Walking Dead</a></i> (1936)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade_(1936_film)" title="The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)">The Charge of the Light Brigade</a></i> (1936)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Stolen_Holiday" title="Stolen Holiday">Stolen Holiday</a></i> (1937)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Justice_(1937_film)" title="Mountain Justice (1937 film)">Mountain Justice</a></i> (1937)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Kid_Galahad_(1937_film)" title="Kid Galahad (1937 film)">Kid Galahad</a></i> (1937)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Perfect_Specimen" title="The Perfect Specimen">The Perfect Specimen</a></i> (1937)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Gold_Is_Where_You_Find_It" title="Gold Is Where You 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Wolf (1941 film)">The Sea Wolf</a></i> (1941)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Dive_Bomber_(film)" title="Dive Bomber (film)">Dive Bomber</a></i> (1941)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Captains_of_the_Clouds" title="Captains of the Clouds">Captains of the Clouds</a></i> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Yankee_Doodle_Dandy" title="Yankee Doodle Dandy">Yankee Doodle Dandy</a></i> (1942) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Casablanca_(film)" title="Casablanca (film)">Casablanca</a></i> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mission to Moscow</a></i> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/This_Is_the_Army" title="This Is the Army">This Is the Army</a></i> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Passage_to_Marseille" title="Passage to Marseille">Passage to Marseille</a></i> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Janie_(1944_film)" title="Janie (1944 film)">Janie</a></i> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Roughly_Speaking_(film)" title="Roughly Speaking (film)">Roughly Speaking</a></i> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Mildred_Pierce_(film)" title="Mildred Pierce (film)">Mildred Pierce</a></i> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Night_and_Day_(1946_film)" title="Night and Day (1946 film)">Night and Day</a></i> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Life_with_Father_(film)" title="Life with Father (film)">Life with Father</a></i> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Unsuspected" title="The Unsuspected">The Unsuspected</a></i> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Romance_on_the_High_Seas" title="Romance on the High Seas">Romance on the High Seas</a></i> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a 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Breaking Point</a></i> (1950)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Force_of_Arms" title="Force of Arms">Force of Arms</a></i> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Jim_Thorpe_%E2%80%93_All-American" title="Jim Thorpe – All-American">Jim Thorpe – All-American</a></i> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I%27ll_See_You_in_My_Dreams_(1951_film)" title="I'll See You in My Dreams (1951 film)">I'll See You in My Dreams</a></i> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Story_of_Will_Rogers" title="The Story of Will Rogers">The Story of Will Rogers</a></i> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer_(1952_film)" title="The Jazz Singer (1952 film)">The Jazz Singer</a></i> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Trouble_Along_the_Way" title="Trouble Along the Way">Trouble Along the Way</a></i> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Boy_from_Oklahoma" title="The Boy from Oklahoma">The Boy from Oklahoma</a></i> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Egyptian_(film)" title="The Egyptian (film)">The Egyptian</a></i> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/White_Christmas_(film)" title="White Christmas (film)">White Christmas</a></i> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/We%27re_No_Angels_(1955_film)" title="We're No Angels (1955 film)">We're No Angels</a></i> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Scarlet_Hour" title="The Scarlet Hour">The Scarlet Hour</a></i> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vagabond_King_(1956_film)" title="The Vagabond King (1956 film)">The Vagabond King</a></i> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_Things_in_Life_Are_Free_(film)" title="The Best Things in Life Are Free (film)">The Best Things in Life Are Free</a></i> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Helen_Morgan_Story" title="The Helen Morgan Story">The Helen Morgan Story</a></i> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Proud_Rebel" title="The Proud Rebel">The Proud Rebel</a></i> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/King_Creole" title="King Creole">King Creole</a></i> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hangman_(1959_film)" title="The Hangman (1959 film)">The Hangman</a></i> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Net" title="The Man in the Net">The Man in the Net</a></i> (1959)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn_(1960_film)" 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