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Actors: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Wolfgang Kieling, Hansjörg Felmy
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Torn Curtain |
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TORN CURTAIN is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1966.
Paul Newman is an american physicist invited to a scientific congress in Denmark. He suddenly defects to East Germany, secretly followed by his colleague and lover Julie Andrews. Newman's intention is to approach Professor Gustav Lindt and to steal from him secret scientific information. But how Newman and Andrews will come back to the other side of the Iron Curtain ?
Not the best Hitchcock but still enjoyable with two or three great scenes.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Torn Curtain |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- state secrets
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scientist
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Scandinavia
- Germany
- Eastern Europe
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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