Torn Curtain
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Theatrical release poster by Howard Terpning
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| Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock |
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| Screenplay by | Brian Moore |
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| Music by | John Addison (rejected score by Bernard Herrmann) |
| Cinematography | John F. Warren |
| Edited by | Bud Hoffman |
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Universal Pictures
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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128 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $13 million |
Torn Curtain is a 1966 American political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. Written by Brian Moore, the film is set in the Cold War. It is about an American scientist who pretends to defect behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany as part of a clandestine mission to obtain the solution of a formula and escape back to the United States.
Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), an American physicist and rocket scientist, is traveling to a conference in Copenhagen with his assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews). Armstrong receives a radiogram to pick up a book in Copenhagen; it contains a message which says, "Contact π in case of emergency." He tells Sherman he is going to , but she discovers he is flying to East Berlin and follows him. When they land, he is welcomed by representatives of the East German government. Sherman realizes that Armstrong has defected, and is appalled that, given the circumstances of the Cold War, if she stays with him, she will likely never see her home or family again.
Armstrong visits a contact, a "farmer" (Mort Mills), where it is revealed that his defection is in fact a ruse to gain the confidence of the East German scientific establishment, in order to learn how much their chief scientist Gustav Lindt (Ludwig Donath) and by extension, the Soviet Union, knows about anti-missile systems.
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