Torn Curtain
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
1966
***
I hate to say it but Torn Curtain is fairly terrible. It's plot is thin, the script is awful and the lead acting and the story are a real let down. It's fairly well known that the production didn't exactly go to plan and many said during the filming that it was doomed from the start but to be fair, it does have some good points. The scene in the farm house is brilliant, pure Hitchcock and utterly unforgettable. The colours and many of the scenes are as beautiful as you'd expect from a Hitchcock film and the supporting cast generally do a good job. It is just the ridiculous plot that is the problem and Paul Newman and Julie Andrews's characters are pretty stupid considering they are rocket scientists. Newman's heart isn't in it and Julie Andrews is woefully miscast. A real shame.