Torn Curtain

"It tears you apart with suspense!"

Jul 27 1966 PG 2h 8m
Romance, Thriller

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.

Plot

Professor Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is heading to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend a physics conference accompanied by his assistant and fiancée Sarah Sherman (Dame Julie Andrews). Once arrived however, Michael informs her that he may be staying for awhile and she should return home. She follows him and realizes he's actually heading to East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain. She follows him there and is shocked when he announces that he's defecting to the East after the U.S. government cancelled his research project. In fact, Michael is there to obtain information from a renowned East German scientist. Once the information is obtained, he and Sarah now have to make their way back to the West.

Written by

Brian Moore, Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Languages

svenska, Norsk, Deutsch, English

Awards

3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
30,445
Average Rating
6.6 out of 10
Metascore
55
Popularity
NA