Torn Curtain (1966)
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Synopsis
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to steal a formula before planning an escape back to the West.
Cast
- Paul Newman
- Julie Andrews
- Lila Kedrova
- Hansjoerg Felmy
- Tamara Toumanova
- Ludwig Donath
- Wolfgang Kieling
- Günter Strack
- Gisela Fischer
- Mort Mills
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- May 23, 2020
I love Paul Newman and Julie Andrews' lack of chemistry, go generic white couple give us nothing!
sarahJul 30, 2020hitchcock thought he could distract me from the general pointlessness of this film with paul newman’s beautiful baby blue eyes and it almost worked! but I saw through his tricks! you can’t fool me baby!
eelyMay 29, 2022Don’t let the disguise fool you. Despite its ratty name, espionage thriller “Torn Curtain” is one of Hitchcock’s more well-hewn and restrained films. Following off the financial and critical failure of the melodramatic “Marnie,” Hitchcock did like a true double agent, and…
theriverjordan - Apr 25, 2020
hitch on autopilot is still pretty good.
Josh LewisJun 17, 2020mathematical logic and romantic inconsistency... This is not Vertigo or Rear Window but it may very well be Hitch’s best cat and mouse thriller, an espionage tale with intense themes. Torn Curtain has a rather terrible reputation. One that gets more dislike than it should…
Ziglet_mirSep 21, 2022Action! - The Master & The Fan: Hitchcock's Bumping Road To Mastering Suspense This picture wasn't awful for a film that many regard as the beginning of Hitchcock's downfall following a tremendous run of films that became classics on their own. True, much of it feels…
Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine - Apr 9, 2021
Yeah this one is not good. With some fun sequences early on, I got quite excited to dig into this one, but it really started dragging after a while. The plot meandered a lot and never quite landed anywhere interesting. It seems Hitchcock kind of lost his mind filming the…
Ethan ColburnFeb 5, 2023This Alfred Hitchcock cold war thriller is a thoroughly underwhelming experience. Torn Curtain focuses on a physics professor who pretends to defect to East Germany in order to obtain a formula for some reason. The plot feels woolly and far removed from any real area of…
Slig001May 16, 2022This is fun! Why do people hate it so much? It's overlong, but all of Hitchcock's films were by this point. Yea, I know Paul Newman is miscast, Julie Andrews gets nothing to do, and they shouldn't have ditched the Bernard Hermann score.... But that fades from my mind as…
Justin Decloux
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- Platypus Lord likedTorn Curtain
Underrated Hitch film. Yeah, there are some chemistry issues, but it succeeds at the classic Hitchcock suspense and has an interesting central conflict, has enjoyable leads, and is just fun overall. The script is not as bad as some say, and the fight scene with Gromek is INTENSE
yourmom dislikedTorn CurtainI love Paul Newman and Julie Andrews' lack of chemistry, go generic white couple give us nothing!
Max Dubner likedTorn CurtainI would have liked it more if my mom wasn’t so horny for Paul newman
- Grayson Rosen likedTorn Curtain
Yeah i didnt love this tbh 6.5/10
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Hitchcock was incapable of making an uninteresting film, even when burdened with unsympathetic stars like Julie Andrews and Paul Newman, and Torn Curtain has its moments.
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
In these times, with James Bonds cutting capers and pallid spies coming in out of the cold, Mr. Hitchcock will have to give us something a good bit brighter to keep us amused.
Bosley Crowther
The New York Times
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