Review – Torn Curtain

It’s a spy thriller from the height of the Cold War. Alfred Hitchcock directed it. Paul Newman and Julie Andrews star. How can it possibly be this bad? The major failing here is that the plot is set up to keep the protagonists in edge-of-your-seat peril constantly, and it sacrifices logic, character development, and just about everything else for the sake of maintaining tension throughout. In particular, the characters’ willingness to do things that only the most mentally-atypical spies would ever do (such as meeting a contact on a tractor in the middle of a field with absolutely no cover story for why either of them should be there) is absolutely fatal to the story. What a disappointment. See if desperate