According to Set Your VCRs, “tomorrow afternoon at 3, eastern time, Turner Classic Movies will be airing Mission to Moscow.”
No, not the Police Academy sequel: This is a World War 2-era picture aimed at showing Americans just how wonderful the USSR is. Directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Howard Koch — the director and co-writer of Casablanca — it’s one of the few universally despised movies that’s even worse than its reputation. The film doesn’t just laud the Soviet economy and glorify Stalin; it defends the purges, complete with a quarter-hour dedicated to arguing that Leon Trotsky was a Nazi agent.
Consider my morbid curiosity piqued.