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- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Newman & Julie Andrews | |
Performer: | David Opatoshu, Lila Kedrova, Peter Lorre, Ludwig Donath, Hansjorg Felmy & Tamara Toumanova | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | Bud Hoffman | |
Screenwriting by | Brian Moore | |
Composition by | John Addison | |
Cinematography by | John F. Warren | |
Art Direction by | Frank Arrigo | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Torn Curtain is not a total disaster.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: C+ --
Hitchcock's 50th feature is one of his weakest, but it's worth seeing for the place it occupies in the master's career, his attempt to come to terms with the new movie market, genres, and tastes.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Hitchcock freshens up his bag of tricks in a good potpourri which becomes a bit stale through a noticeable lack of zip and pacing.
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Variety
Rating: 4/5 --
Much of the film is stunning.
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Times (UK)
An above-average quota of glaringly shaky process work; but at least one classic sequence of protracted violence in a farmhouse kitchen.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
A strangely muted, dull effort, though still worthy of attention.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/5 --
Dismissed by many as part of Hitchcock's regrettable declining years, Torn Curtain turns out to be a surprisingly tense and intimate spy thriller.
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The Film Yap
Description by OLDIES.com:
World-famous scientist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) and his fiance/assistant, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews), travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themselves running for their lives from enemy agents in this action-packed thriller.
Product Description:
TORN CURTAIN was Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film and signals a return to the espionage-romance theme the director showcased in such films as SECRET AGENT and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Hitchcock created a distinct look for the film, subduing lighting and gauzing the lens to give a more natural, less studio-produced feel. Notably, it was the strength of studio influence that contributed another change in the look of the film relative to most Hitchcock pictures, casting leads that departed from traditional Hitchcock types. Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, both at the heights of their popularity when the film was released, anchor this cold war spy thriller. An American scientist (Newman) attends a convention in Copenhagen with his fiancée-assistant (Andrews). While there, she picks up a message meant for him and is drawn into a complex web of espionage behind the Iron Curtain that he had intended to face alone. Her presence throws all his plans into disarray, and the two lovers discover too late that it's easier to get in than to get out again. In one of the film's most memorable scenes, Hitchcock shows his audience just how difficult murder can be when opposed by the will for survival.
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