Hitchcock’s 50th film

Press, 27 June 1983, Page 17

Hitchcock’s 50th film

Alfred Hitchcock’s fiftieth film, “Torn Curtain,” starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, will be screened on Two at midday tomorrow. Written by Brian Moore, the film also stars the Russian-born actress, Lila Kedrova, who won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for a memorable performance in “Zorba The Greek” (1964). “Torn Curtain” tells the story of Professor .Michael Armstrong (Newman) and his financee, Sarah Sherman (Andrews), of the U.S. Interspace Committee. They travel to Copenhagen for an international congress of physicists. In Copenhagen

they are given a book which contains a cryptic message. Later Michael tells Sarah that he must go to Sweden immediately, saying that they might want to finance his Gamma Five experiments which the United States had stopped. Suspicious, Sarah checks Michael’s airline reservation and discovers that he is booked on a flight to East Berlin. Julie Andrews made her New York debut in “The Boyfriend” (1954) and two years later starred in “My Fair Lady,” one of the most spectacular hits in Broadway history. After losing the part in the film version to

Audrey Hepburn, Andrews made her film debut in Disney's “Mary Poppins” (1964), for which she won the best actress Academy Award. The following year she starred in “The Sound of Music,” one of the top grossing films of all time. Her screen career faltered in the late 1970 s but her popularity was revived by an award-winning’ television series of musical spectaculars. More recently she has starred in two hits movies, “10" and “Victor/Victoria,” both of which were produced by her husband, Blake Edwards.