Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain (1966)

Timing: 2:7 (127 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1966-07-15

Country

United States

Production

Universal Pictures, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Genre

Thriller, Mystery

Budget

$6 000 000

Revenue

$13 000 000

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Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Actors

Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy, Tamara Toumanova, Ludwig Donath, Wolfgang Kieling, Günter Strack, David Opatoshu, Gisela Fischer
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Scenario

Brian Moore

Producer

Alfred Hitchcock

Operator

John F. Warren

Composer

John Addison

Artist

Audition

Editing

Bud Hoffman
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• The film features music by P.I. Tchaikovsky (a fragment from the symphonic fantasy 'Francesca da Rimini').
• 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.
• 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.
• The idea for the script was prompted 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.
• 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 film features music by P.I. Tchaikovsky (a fragment from the symphonic fantasy "Francesca da Rimini").
• 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.