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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Torn Curtain

2h 7m

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1966 • United States
Starring Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova

Paul Newman and Julie Andrews star in Alfred Hitchcock’s gripping Cold War thriller about a nuclear physicist/double agent and his troubled fiancée who must escape East Germany amid dangerous political intrigue. Featuring a famous sequence in which Hitchcock demonstrates both the brutality and gracelessness of murder, TORN CURTAIN is a topical document of geopolitical tension as well as a timeless exercise in suspense.

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