Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain

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