While "Mission to Moscow" cannot be classed as good history because of its many obvious inaccuracies, mainly chronological, it can by no stretch of the imagination be called a communists distortion of the good Ambassador's volume of the same name.

What this movie does is to present a fair picture of the book. Its success is apparent from the fact that one gets the same impression from reading the book as from seeing the pic, and the one merely reinforces the other.

If all the people who have been complaining that the Freres Warner have wittingly or unwittingly played into the hands of the Kremlin in presenting a false story of the U. S. S. R. had read Mr. Davies' book, they might have sung a different tune.

Davies said, over and over, that he and almost all other diplomats in Moscow at the time were convinced of the guilt of the accused at the celebrated purge trials, but that no one outside of Russia ever seemed to credit that possibility.

As a movie, "Mission to Moscow" is good entertainment, well acted and photographed, presenting a faithful portrayal of an important book marred only by factual irresponsibility.