Torn Curtain (1966)
Country: US
Technical: col 128m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Wolfgang Kieling, Lila Kedrova
Synopsis:
An American scientist defects to the Soviet bloc while on a trip to Europe with his fiancée, but it is only so that he can steal the formula for an advanced resin and escape back to the West.
Review:
Ah, for the days of Notorious, when the stuff in the wine bottles counted for so little next to the relationship between the leads... Alas, the chemistry here extends no further than the MacGuffin itself, and the murder of Gromek in an isolated house is the only memorable sequence of the film. To make matters worse, Hitch fell out with Herrmann over the film and replaced his music with a bland score by John Addison. Still, it is better than Topaz (1969).
Country: US
Technical: col 128m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Wolfgang Kieling, Lila Kedrova
Synopsis:
An American scientist defects to the Soviet bloc while on a trip to Europe with his fiancée, but it is only so that he can steal the formula for an advanced resin and escape back to the West.
Review:
Ah, for the days of Notorious, when the stuff in the wine bottles counted for so little next to the relationship between the leads... Alas, the chemistry here extends no further than the MacGuffin itself, and the murder of Gromek in an isolated house is the only memorable sequence of the film. To make matters worse, Hitch fell out with Herrmann over the film and replaced his music with a bland score by John Addison. Still, it is better than Topaz (1969).
Country: US
Technical: col 128m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Wolfgang Kieling, Lila Kedrova
Synopsis:
An American scientist defects to the Soviet bloc while on a trip to Europe with his fiancée, but it is only so that he can steal the formula for an advanced resin and escape back to the West.
Review:
Ah, for the days of Notorious, when the stuff in the wine bottles counted for so little next to the relationship between the leads... Alas, the chemistry here extends no further than the MacGuffin itself, and the murder of Gromek in an isolated house is the only memorable sequence of the film. To make matters worse, Hitch fell out with Herrmann over the film and replaced his music with a bland score by John Addison. Still, it is better than Topaz (1969).