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By the mid-1960’s, many people felt that the aging Alfred Hitchcock had lost his touch. Torn Curtain makes a good argument that they were right. This cold war thriller has one great scene (the murder in the farm house) and another good one (the discussion in the classroom as security alarms go off), but aside from that it just doesn’t work. A large part of the problem: Paul Newman and Julie Andrews fail utterly to produce the romantic and sexual sparks that the story so utterly depends on.