Torn Curtain

1966 · 127 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 30,445 VOTES · DIR. Alfred Hitchcock

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Overview

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,260 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:36 Are they ever going to get the heating fixed?
00:06:48 Hello, Michael. Glad that heat's on again.
00:10:21 Oh, Miss Sherman.
00:13:55 the 'Hotel of England' in the French language.
00:17:37 But aren't I any use to you anymore?
00:23:22 to live and work for peace in the Peoples' Democracies.
00:27:09 Won't you please sit down?
00:30:16 I am offering my services to your University of Leipzig
00:34:11 ''Thank God he hasn't come.''
00:43:11 Look, mister
00:46:03 but I just didn't have time.
00:56:01 She has decided to come over to our side.
01:00:01 He died last year.
01:02:34 And I'll just feed him hopefully the right kind of plausible
01:06:47 until the security people have made further investigations.
01:10:42 She's adamant. Besides, I don't think the security people -
01:15:25 When he found out that he wasn't supposed to question me
01:19:13 We must get together, and you can tell me about it.
01:24:41 Well, we built it, and it works, and it didn't blow up.
01:31:33 But we leave ten minutes ahead of it.
01:38:02 Now we will have to stop.
01:44:37 Just a little bit tobacco in this end.
01:48:40 Oh, good!
01:54:29 You won't be safe until you're ashore.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,260
Dialogue density9.9 lines / min
First line00:02:36
Final line01:54:29

Production Record

DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,000,000
Revenue$13,000,615
IMDb votes30,445