Torn Curtain (1966) is a political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.
The movie opens on a cruise ship en route to Copenhagen, where Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), an esteemed American physicist and rocket scientist, is to attend a scientific conference. Once there, he begins acting suspiciously, eventually flying to East Berlin, where he is welcomed by representatives of the East German governme...
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Torn Curtain (1966) is a political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.
The movie opens on a cruise ship en route to Copenhagen, where Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), an esteemed American physicist and rocket scientist, is to attend a scientific conference. Once there, he begins acting suspiciously, eventually flying to East Berlin, where he is welcomed by representatives of the East German government. His assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews), follows him there, believing he has defected to the other side. Sherman, however, is extremely uncomfortable with this move, realizing if the apparent defection is in fact real, given the circumstances of the Cold War of the period, she would likely never see her home or family again. They are constantly accompanied by Professor Karl Manfred (Günter Strack), who took part in arranging Armstrong's defection to the East.
It soon becomes apparent to the viewer that Armstrong's...
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