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  1. Torn Curtain
    PG1966 · Thriller · 2h 8m

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  1. 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. Even his fiancée (Julie ...

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      Torn Curtain is not a total disaster. Full Review | Original...

  2. Spleen 16 July 2001. Between "The Birds" and "Frenzy" Hitchcock made three consecutive critical and box office failures: "Marnie (1964), "Torn Curtain" (1966), and "Topaz" (1969). It's natural to want to rehabilitate one or other of these, and most fans and critics, following (of course) François Truffaut, pick "Marnie".

  3. 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
  4. Feb 14, 2006 · Review: Torn Curtain. Torn Curtain is not a total disaster. Alfred Hitchcock’s 50th film, Torn Curtain, starts with a bang-up credit sequence: smoke and fire billow and burn on the left side of the screen, and on the right runs a succession of anguished, often distorted close-ups of faces under great strain, all set to John Addison’s ...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Torn_CurtainTorn Curtain - Wikipedia

    Torn Curtain was released without any rating on 14 July 1966 (see original 1966 movie poster above). However, the film was given an "R" (for "Restricted") under the MPAA film rating system that took effect November 1, 1968. It was ultimately re-rated PG in 1984.

  6. For "Torn Curtain," which opened yesterday at the DeMille, the 34th Street East and the Coronet, is a pathetically undistinguished spy picture, and the obvious reason is that the script is a collection of what Mr. Hitchcock most eschews -- cliches. u000bIt is supposed to be a thriller about an American nuclear scientist who gets behind the Iron ...

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  8. Apr 30, 2020 · Especially in its third phase, Torn Curtain becomes nothing but a fetch quest, schlepping the characters from one location to another in scenes that hang together in the most brutally literal sense, but don't have the wonderful sense of events spilling over that marks the best of Hitch's earlier "crisscross a nation chasing clues" films, like ...

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