Archive for November 18th, 2005

Torn Curtain (1966)

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Look, mister. Why don’t you leave this intelligence stuff to us professionals?

By 1966, Alfred Hitchcock had been working in film for 40 years and he was most certainly one of the few filmmakers, maybe the only one, still working regularly whose career stretched back to the silent era. Unfortunately, the director’s stubborn adherence to his old school ways, particularly his aversion to filming on location, had begun to catch up with him.

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