Вообщем-то тот факт, что об этом фильме никогда не было слышно, так как обычно говорят о фильмах Хитча, шумно, сразу же вызвал у меня сомнения по поводу отношения режиссера к фильму.
Всем думаю известно, как студии умеет надавать на создателей фильма. Да и в в передаче про Ньюмана про этот фильм не было ни слова.
Ну конечно, тема скучноватая, и возможно в связи со всеми навязанными обязательствами студии, у Хитча не было энтузиазма снимать этот фильм.
Но все же мастерство не отнять, и фильм получился неплохой.
Началось все по-западноберлински скучно, со всеми этими атомными бомбами, ядерными оружиями. ракетами и наукой.
Но как оказалось, дело вовсе не в этом, и начиная с середины фильм стал очень, по-шпионски, оживленным.
Молодая Джули Эндрюс невероятно красива, так еще и в паре с Полом.
А какие крупные планы! Да еще бы увидеть их на большом экране ...
Was reportedly one of Alfred Hitchcock's most unhappy directing jobs.
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In a 1986 interview, Anthony Perkins revealed that Alfred Hitchcock wanted to cast him as Professor Armstrong.
But the studio forced Hitchcock to cast Paul Newman.
When he was on Inside the Actors Studio, During his days of sneaking on the Universal set, Steven Spielberg said he had watched Hitchcock work on the feature, before a stage hand asked him to leave.
Hitchcock wanted to cast Eva Marie Saint, whom he had previously directed in На север через северо-запад.
However, the studio felt that, at 42, Saint was too old to play the female lead.
They instead cast the younger and more popular Julie Andrews.
Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted to cast Cary Grant in the lead role, but Grant told him he was too old.
According to the book "It's Only a Movie", Brian Moore was chosen to write the screenplay, but shooting began before Hitchcock was satisfied with the sсript, dictated by the limited availability of Julie Andrews.
One of the reasons Alfred Hitchcock did not want to use Paul Newman and Julie Andrews was their very high fees.
For the rest of his career Hitchcock would never hire performers with the same sort of fee or above.
Alfred Hitchcock was so unhappy with this film that he decided to not to make a trailer with his appearance in it.
The scene where Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult it really can be to kill a man.
Bernard Herrmann wrote the original score, but Universal Pictures executives convinced Hitchcock that they needed a more upbeat score.
Hitchcock and Herrmann had a major disagreement, the score was dropped and they never worked together again.
Despite the falling out between Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann, Torn Curtain turned out to be one of the highest grossing films of 1966 for Universal.
According to the book "It's Only a Movie", Hitchcock said: "THERE WAS AN ENDING written which wasn't used, but I rather liked it.
No one agreed with me except my colleague at home [his wife Alma Reville]. Everyone told me that you couldn't have a letdown ending after all that.
Paul Newman would have thrown the formula away. After what he has gone through, after everything we have endured with him, he just tosses it.
It speaks to the futility of all, and it's in keeping with the kind of naivete of the character, who is no professional spy and who will certainly retire from that nefarious business."