Torn Curtain
It tears you apart with suspense!
Country
Production
Budget
$3 000 000
Box office
$13 000 615
Director
Actors
Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath, Wolfgang Kieling, Günter Strack, David Opatoshu, Gisela Fischer
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
John F. Warren
Composer
Artist
Hein Heckroth
Audition
Editing
Bud Hoffman
Whole Team (19)
Whole Team (19)
Short description
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
What's left behind the scenes
- One of the reasons Alfred Hitchcock didn't want to cast Paul Newman (1925-2008) and Julie Andrews was that they demanded excessively high fees. He would not cast actors with similar fees for the rest of his career.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) deliberately included a fight scene in the film to show viewers how difficult it actually is to kill a person, because in the spy thrillers of that time, killings were depicted as a trivial matter.
- The film features music by P.I. Tchaikovsky (a fragment from the symphonic fantasy "Francesca da Rimini").
- Dissatisfied with the participation of Paul Newman and Julie Andrews in the film, Alfred Hitchcock shifted the focus of the plot from the scientist-defector's wife to an amateur spy and concentrated on the actors and actresses in supporting roles.
- The idea for the screenplay was suggested by an incident in 1951, when British diplomats Guy Burgess (1911-1963) and Donald Maclean (1913-1983) defected to the USSR. Hitchcock was particularly interested in Maclean’s life in the Soviet Union and his wife Melinda Marling, who followed her husband behind the "Iron Curtain" a year later with their three children.
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