Torn Curtain
1966 · 127 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 30,445 VOTES · DIR. Alfred Hitchcock
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
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00:02:36 Are they ever going to get the heating fixed?
00:06:51 I'll say.
00:10:27 Our luncheon engagement yesterday on the ship. You had a cold.
00:14:10 You're robbing me of the company of a beautiful girl.
00:17:52 No. It just wouldn't work.
00:24:18 Danke. This way.
00:27:42 Well, that's up to Miss Sherman.
00:30:59 - Professor. - Fäulein Sherman.
00:34:51 I'm sorry. I can't.
00:43:46 But this professor in Leipzig, he has?
00:47:00 Maybe...
00:57:32 Professor, we seem to have lost Gromek.
01:01:01 I will need photographs of both of you
01:04:55 to put to you some questions.
01:08:36 Were you not present at the United States
01:14:02 I was able to combine mathematical logic with romantic inconsistency.
01:17:08 Let us have some intelligent conversation.
01:21:30 - Oh, you read that paper? - Oh, yes.
01:28:02 What does he look like, this Professor Armstrong?
01:35:16 Another roadblock.
01:43:14 You are with that gentleman?
01:47:08 Please?
01:53:50 So, you got away from the bus alright?
04:00:00 Professor Lindt, now where is he?
Cast & Characters
Paul Newman
Prof. Michael Armstrong
Julie Andrews
Dr. Sarah Sherman
Lila Kedrova
Countess Kuchinska
Hansjörg Felmy
Heinrich Gerhard
Tamara Toumanova
Ballerina
Ludwig Donath
Professor Gustav Lindt
Wolfgang Kieling
Hermann Gromek
Günter Strack
Professor Karl Manfred
David Opatoshu
Mr. Jacobi
Gisela Fischer
Dr. Koska
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,260
Dialogue density9.9 lines / min
First line00:02:36
Final line04:00:00
Production Record
DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3,000,000
Revenue$13,000,615
IMDb votes30,445