Extended Reading
  • Donnell 2022-01-12 08:01:42

    The Iron Curtain is really not important, fleeing is a serious matter

    Although Hitchcock's movies are all very good-looking, I love this one only. Paul Newman and Julie Andrews are my favorite combination!

     It's just that I think there is a plot in the film that is far-fetched. Paul went to the farm and organized a connection. Because of language barriers, he painted...

  • Eugenia 2022-01-12 08:01:42

    It deepens my feelings about Hitchcock's dislike

    1. Paul Newman and Julie Andrew are definitely the highlights of this movie. When the former heroine didn't know the truth and the hero didn't dare to speak out, the interaction between the two protagonists was so sensible. Paul Newman's melancholy broke my heart.

    2. As for the protagonist’s poor...

  • Jaime 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    The film is the third most popular Hitchcock movie voted by the American audience~

  • Daniela 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Obsessed with the style of these early color feature films made before the 1970s: old school, subtle, elegant, charming, smooth. The story itself is naive and has many loopholes. For example, the process of connecting to East Germany is a child's play (the male protagonist wants to find a farm, the mud is not rubbed, the female spy is like a donkey, etc.), the chain is long and worthless, only exposing himself, but winning. In tuning and pleasing, it fits the West I imagined from the book when I was a child, and it is wide and four stars. In addition, the early fights were as stupid as Peking Opera.

Torn Curtain quotes

  • Hermann Gromek: Hot dog. You still say that?

    [chuckles]

    Hermann Gromek: Hot dog.

  • Hermann Gromek: Strictly for the birds, huh? They still say that? We used to say it all the time. It's strictly for the "boids."