16mm sound print
ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S
"TORN CURTAIN"
1966
starring
PAUL NEWMAN
JULIE ANDREWS
LILA KEDROVA
this is a real nice Agfa print - the main titles have been replaced
with brand new LPP titles that look great.
film is in good to very good condition some light normal wear mainly at the start and finish of the reels but no spliced up sections.
there is a light green line for approx 45 seconds that comes and goes on reel 3 .
in general this print is a B + / A -
well balanced color on this Agfa print looks real nice on the big screen
digital photos do not do the print justice.
This the UNCUT version that originally played in theaters not
the edited version that went out in 1968 for a more general audience.
this means the bedroom scene with Newman and Andrews is in this print as well as the very graphic farmhouse murder scene.
The murder scene is one that has been praised by many including
Sam Peckinpah.
From a 1974 interview:
Peckinpah: "I have often said it but I will repeat it if you want me to: "The Wild Bunch" was my way of reacting against all the films in which violence seemed facile, fictitious, and unreal. I was always fascinated to see how one died easily in the movies. Almost always violent death is deactualized. People die without suffering and violence provokes no pain."
"I love the sequence of the murder of Gromek in 'Torn Curtain' by Hitchcock, because this is one of the rare films where one can actually see death at work. Hitchcock, with all of his immense talent, shows us that it is not easy to kill a man and that the human body has an extraordinary power of resistance to physical aggression."
This was Universal's biggest success of 1966.