Torn Curtain

About Torn Curtain

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

Torn Curtain is a 1966 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It runs 127 minutes and was released in July 1966.

Paul Newman appears as Michael Armstrong, Julie Andrews as Sarah Sherman, Lila Kedrova as Countess Kuchinska, and Hansjörg Felmy as Heinrich Gerhard. Written by Brian Moore. It was produced by Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions.

Shelv files it under cold war and east germany.

The Lives of Others and The Indestructibles make useful companions to Torn Curtain. It scores 6.6 out of 10 from 688 TMDB voters and it carries a PG rating.