Synopsis
“
Alfred Hitchcock’s
Torn Curtain (1966) is about thresholds. The rent drapery of the title is the most obvious example: the proverbial “iron curtain” that bisected Europe during the Cold War is bypassed by American physicist Michael Armstrong (
Paul Newman), who, on behalf of the U.S. government, pretends to defect to East Berlin so that he can steal information from the country’s lead scientist.” –
Jonah Jeng
