20 December 2009

A prima donna scorned

Torn Curtain

(1966)
My god! That's Maria von Trapp! That's Mary Poppins, for god's sake, naked under the covers with a man she's not married to! Is nothing sacred?

Hitchcock's only film with either Paul Newman or Julie Andrews is not the disaster it is often portrayed as, but it really could have used better editing--what should have been a sleek 105-minute thriller plods at 128 minutes. Given the cast, it's just nothing special.

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