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Bookmark this pageTorn Curtain (1966)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Spy thriller in which Newman's defecting scientist is followed to East Berlin by his troubled fiancée/assistant (Andrews), unaware that he is playing a double agent game. Hitchcock, seemingly too dour or too uninterested to turn in the title's promise of a Cold War ripping yarn, settles instead for a dissection of the limits of domestic trust, as Andrews' doubts about Newman's fidelity (to her, to the American Way) hinder his undercover mission in pursuit of an Eastern bloc MacGuffin. An above-average quota of glaringly shaky process work; but at least one classic sequence of protracted violence in a farmhouse kitchen.Author: PT
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Cast & crew
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjîrg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Wolfgang Kieling, Ludwig Donath full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 128 mins
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