Torn Curtain | 1966
Updated February 25, 2022
Critical Consensus
Vince Leo | Qwipster
Kevin Maher | The Times
Alex McLevy | The A.V. Club
Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dave Kehr | Chicago Reader
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid
JPRoscoe | Basement Rejects
Frank Ehrlacher | Movie Master
Tony Sloman | RadioTimes
Mark Baker | Carstairs Considers
Ryan McDonald | Shameless Self Expression
Bosley Crowther | The New York Times
Dan Callahan | Slant Magazine
Terrence J. Brady | Dial H for Hitchcock
Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending
Kevin Maher | The Times
Alex McLevy | The A.V. Club
Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dave Kehr | Chicago Reader
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid
JPRoscoe | Basement Rejects
Frank Ehrlacher | Movie Master
Tony Sloman | RadioTimes
Mark Baker | Carstairs Considers
Ryan McDonald | Shameless Self Expression
Bosley Crowther | The New York Times
Dan Callahan | Slant Magazine
Terrence J. Brady | Dial H for Hitchcock
Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending
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Summary & Info
An American physicist (Paul Newman) defects to East Germany during the height of the Cold War, taking with him his stunned fiancée (Julie Andrews). However, once behind the Iron Curtain it becomes apparent that the defection is a ploy to uncover Soviet nuclear secrets and the two have to try and escape back to the West. Cast: Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath, Wolfgang Kieling and Günter Strack. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [2:08 – PG]
Dueling Critics
“[C]lassic Hitch all of the way…not only a genuinely good Hitchcock spy yarn, but there aren’t many of its ilk done better. Exciting, suspenseful, funny, and with lots of feeling, this is top-quality entertainment of the highest order…this is still a film made by a director at the top of his game.”
“[N]either the worst nor the dullest Hitchcock film, but it’s pretty damn hard to like, and an unpleasantly strong suggestion that the director, having made such a commanding number of masterpieces in the preceding three decades, was simply running out of things to say and ways of saying them.”
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Torn Curtain | 2022
Updated February 25, 2022
Critical Consensus
Vince Leo | Qwipster
Kevin Maher | The Times
Alex McLevy | The A.V. Club
Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dave Kehr | Chicago Reader
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid
JPRoscoe | Basement Rejects
Frank Ehrlacher | Movie Master
Tony Sloman | RadioTimes
Mark Baker | Carstairs Considers
Ryan McDonald | Shameless Self Expression
Bosley Crowther | The New York Times
Dan Callahan | Slant Magazine
Terrence J. Brady | Dial H for Hitchcock
Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending
Kevin Maher | The Times
Alex McLevy | The A.V. Club
Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dave Kehr | Chicago Reader
Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid
JPRoscoe | Basement Rejects
Frank Ehrlacher | Movie Master
Tony Sloman | RadioTimes
Mark Baker | Carstairs Considers
Ryan McDonald | Shameless Self Expression
Bosley Crowther | The New York Times
Dan Callahan | Slant Magazine
Terrence J. Brady | Dial H for Hitchcock
Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending
Fix a critic’s review
Dueling Critics
“[C]lassic Hitch all of the way…not only a genuinely good Hitchcock spy yarn, but there aren’t many of its ilk done better. Exciting, suspenseful, funny, and with lots of feeling, this is top-quality entertainment of the highest order…this is still a film made by a director at the top of his game.”
“[N]either the worst nor the dullest Hitchcock film, but it’s pretty damn hard to like, and an unpleasantly strong suggestion that the director, having made such a commanding number of masterpieces in the preceding three decades, was simply running out of things to say and ways of saying them.”
Summary & Info
An American physicist (Paul Newman) defects to East Germany during the height of the Cold War, taking with him his stunned fiancée (Julie Andrews). However, once behind the Iron Curtain it becomes apparent that the defection is a ploy to uncover Soviet nuclear secrets and the two have to try and escape back to the West. Cast: Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath, Wolfgang Kieling and Günter Strack. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. [2:08 – PG]