Mission to Moscow is a book by the former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Joseph E. Davies It was directed by Michael Curtiz in 1943.
The movie, starring Walter Huston, was made in response to a request by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was one of the movies famously targeted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. It chronicles the experiences of the second American ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies.
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