Torn Curtain (1966)
Paul Newman
Julie Andrews



Genres
Thriller Spy
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writers
Brian Moore
Composers
John Addison
Bernard Herrmann (rejected)
Director of Photography
John F. Warren

Review
Oddly unmoving Hitchcock thriller about American scientist pretending to be defector. Slick but empty film. Some TV prints are cut to 121 minutes, excising violent scenes.

Trivia
The scene where agent Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult it really can be to kill a man.

Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall did extensive (uncredited) rewrites on the script.

Bernard Herrmann wrote the original score, but Universal executives convinced Hitch that they needed a more upbeat score. Hitch and Herrmann had a major disagreement, the score was dropped and they never worked together again.

Cameo


Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film sitting in a hotel lobby with a baby on his knee.

Paul Newman
Michael Armstrong
Julie Andrews
Sarah Sherman
Carolyn Conwell
Farmer's Wife
Ludwig Donath
Professor Gustav Lindt
Hans-Joerg Felmy
Heinrich
Gerhard Gisela Fischer
Dr. Koska
Arthur Gould-Porter
Freddy
Lila Kedrova
Countess Luchinska
Wolfgang Kieling
Hermann Gromek
Mort Mills
Farmer
David Opatoshu
Jakobi
Gunter Strack
Professor Karl Manfred
Tamara
Toumanova
Ballerina
Gloria Gorvin
 

 



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