"In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first."
Melvyn Douglas
as Stalin
Eli Wallach
as Poskrebyshev
Oskar Homolka
as Khrushchev
E.G. Marshall
as Beria
Luther Adler
as Molotov
Thomas Gomez
as Malenkov
Marian Seldes
as Mme. Molotov
Lawrence Dobkin
as Shtemenko
Bert Freed
as Sokolovsky
David J. Stewart
as Ignatiev
Paul Bryar
as Zhukhov
Paul Lambert
as Rassine
Delbert Mann
Director
David Karp
Writer
Fred Coe
Producer
Bo Goldman
Associate Producer
Russell Stoneham
Ethel Winant
Casting
Robert Tyler Lee
Art Direction
Buck Henshaw
Set Decoration