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- Torn Curtain is a 1966 American spy political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. Written by Brian Moore, the film is set in the Cold War. It is about an American scientist who appears to defect behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany.
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Torn Curtain: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy. An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
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- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1966-07-27
Torn Curtain is a 1966 American spy political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. Written by Brian Moore, the film is set in the Cold War. It is about an American scientist who appears to defect behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany.
Summaries. An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Jul 4, 2024 · This movie is a love letter to those rebels. I simply cannot shake Torn Curtain from my mind, a film that almost doesn’t even feel like a film but instead a peak behind the curtain (no pun intended, I swear) of a crucial resistance.
Torn Curtain is a film very much of its time, a Cold War spy thriller inspired by the defection of two British civil servants, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, to Russia in 1951. It is best known for the horrific sequence in which the lead character, assisted by a farmer's wife, kills a German police chief with the paraphernalia of a farmhouse ...
- Alfred Hitchcock
When Alfred Hitchcock began his 50th feature film, Torn Curtain (1966), he should have been at the pinnacle of his career. After four decades as a director his films were still popular, French critics were proclaiming him a great artist, some American critics were beginning to agree, and intelligent career management by his agent Lew Wasserman ...
American physicist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) shocks his friends and family by defecting to East Germany to work with the Soviets during the height of the Cold War.
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- Mystery & Thriller
- PG
