Mission To Moscow is literally repellent - I’ve never been able to sit all the way through it. Davies was a vile character.
If you think “Mission to Moscow” was repellent, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet until you’ve seen “Days of Glory,” due to be released in 1944. It’s Gregory Peck’s film debut, and it is pure unadultered Soviet propaganda. Sergei Eisentein couldn’t have made a better, or worse, propaganda film. Acutally, Eisenstein’s movies had some value to them, especially if he had Prokofiev write the music score as in “Alexander Nevsky.” “Days of Glory” was very heavy-handed and crude, especially at the end when Gregory Peck and the lead female operate an anti-tank rifle and she takes the oath to the Communist Party while a German panzer is about to roll over them. Ugh.....
Here’s the IMDB info in case you are interested:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036748/
I was a Poli Sci major at Indiana University along with my best friend and hunting buddy. We got drunk one night (of many) and watched “Days of Glory. “ We laughed our asses off at how crude it was. But drunk off your ass was the only way you could watch it.