Torn Curtain

Political thriller from Alfred Hitchcock, in which Paul Newman plays a Western defector to Russia who may not be all he seems., Alfred Hitchcock’s 50th film is about an American scientist who defects to East Germany. Paul Newman, Julie Andrews. Countess Kuchinska: Lila Kedrova. Gerhard: Hansjorg Felmy. Gromek: Wolfgang Kieling. Lindt: Ludwig Donath., Alfred Hitchcock’s spy thriller stars Paul Newman as Michael Armstrong, a scientist who defects to East Germany to hand over the West’s secrets. With him is his assistant and lover, Sarah Sherman, who doesn’t suspect Armstrong is a double-agent, sent to steal missile defence secrets. But when his cover is blown, he and Sherman have to flee for their lives, hoping to make it back to the West before the Stasi and their spies can capture them., U.S. rocket scientist Michael Armstrong is acting very suspiciously and Sarah follows him to East Germany when he apparently tries to defect to the other side…, A double agent has to contend with enemies on both sides of the political fence as well as the woman he loves in this thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Prof. Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. To his surprise, his fiancée, fellow scientist Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) follows him, and she soon discovers Armstrong is no traitor, but acting as a secret undercover agent. As Armstrong attempts to ingratiate himself with political and scientific factions in East Germany, Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling) becomes his guide, though Armstrong is aware he’s a government agent assigned to trail him, and as he tries to shake Gromek, Armstrong realizes his new “friend” knows what his real agenda happens to be. Torn Curtain was one of the rare Hitchcock films from his “classic” era which did not feature a score by Bernard Herrman; due to objections from his studio, Hitchcock removed Herrman from the project, though excerpts from the score he had begun were included as a bonus on the film’s DVD release in 2002., Paul Newman stars as top U.S. nuclear physicist who defects to East Germany to retrieve a secret formula that has fallen into enemy hands. Julie Andrew co-stars., Alfred Hitchcock’s 50th film is about an American scientist who defects to East Germany., Prof. Michael Armstrong is an gifted American physicist who, at the height of the Cold War, decides to defect to East Germany. To his surprise, his fiancée, fellow scientist Sarah Sherman follows him, and she soon discovers Armstrong is no traitor, but acting as a secret undercover agent., Espionage thriller in which an American nuclear physicist heads east posing as a defector in order to learn the secrets of the Russian missile programme. His incredulous fiance follows him across the Iron Curtain, unaware that her actions will endanger his life. The film was Alfred Hitchcock’s 50th as a director., An American physicist, dismayed by his country’s refusal to spend big bucks on missile defence, defects to the other side of the Iron Curtain. Or does he?