Alfred Hitchcock's TORN CURTAIN (1966) @ The Hi-Pointe!

General Admission - $12
Student/Senior - $9
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Coming SOON!
https://hipointetheatre.org/coming-soon/

APRIL 2026
https://hipointetheatre.org/calendar/

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ADVANCE TICKETS:

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NOTE: Until you select the desired quantity of tickets, ALL other fields will be "grayed out" and "unenterable".
https://hipointetheatre.org/purchase/450628/

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PARKING:

After 6PM M-F, after 12PM Saturday, and ALL DAY SUNDAY, there’s plenty of FREE parking right next door HERE:

Lindell Bank
6900 Clayton Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63139
314-645-7700
https://hipointetheatre.org/parking-directions/

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After the movie, we will gather in the lobby for lively, provocative, and insightful conversation--OR as close as we can come to that, anyway--HA!
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Part of the series "Getting Hitched"
https://hipointetheatre.org/film-series/getting-hitched/

A Hitchcock Retrospective
Thursdays & Sundays • January 1–June 14, 2026

The Hi-Pointe rings in 2026 by celebrating Alfred Hitchcock with a 16-film retrospective that commences on New Year’s Day and continues through mid-June. Hopscotching across the Master of Suspense’s long and storied career, which stretched from the silent era through the New Hollywood of the 1970s, the series includes a trio of his precedent-setting British works but focuses on Hitchcock’s absurdly fertile American period.

The Thursday matinees for six of the films – Blackmail, The 39 Steps, Shadow of a Doubt, Notorious, Rear Window, and Vertigo – will feature introductions and post-film discussions by Cliff Froehlich, former Riverfront Times film critic and retired executive director of Cinema St. Louis. These discussion screenings are generously sponsored by St. Louis Oasis. Froehlich will likely make surprise appearances at a few additional screenings – we’ll keep you in suspense – and he also contributes the synopses for the entire film series.
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock Run Time: 127 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1966

Starring: Hansjörg Felmy, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Paul Newman, Tamara Toumanova

The first of Alfred Hitchcock’s Cold War thrillers – it was followed by Topaz – Torn Curtain tells the story of the apparent defection of U.S. physicist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) to the Soviet Bloc. After a scientific conference in Copenhagen, Armstrong surreptitiously embarks for East Berlin, but fiancée Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews), who also works as his assistant (calling HR!), manages to follow him. Though appalled by his treason, Sarah reluctantly opts to remain with Michael, whose real intentions slowly reveal themselves. The film’s centerpiece is a justly celebrated sequence involving an existential struggle with secret-police minder Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling, who in an odd coincidence later moved from West to East Germany): Armstrong and a farmer’s wife (Carolyn Conwell) – actually a member of a dissident group helping with escapes to the West – engage in a prolonged, exhausting effort to dispatch the Stasi agent, who battles tenaciously for his life. Another of Torn Curtain’s attractions is the belated appearance of Lila Kedrova as a sympathetic Polish countess who expertly oscillates between comic and tragic modes in her attempts to wheedle U.S. visa sponsorship in exchange for aiding Michael and Sarah’s escape. Less happily, Torn Curtain marked the rupture of Hitchcock’s long-term collaboration with composer Bernard Herrmann, whom the director fired for failing to deliver a more pop-oriented score, replacing him with John Addison.
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NOTE: On Rotten Tomatoes, this movie has a 63% on the Tomatometer and a 52% on the Popcornmeter.

https://hipointetheatre.org/movies/torn-curtain/ [Includes Trailer]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torn_Curtain
https://www.scripts.com/script/torn_curtain_22113