Professor Michael Armstrong and his secretary Sarah, of the US Interspace Committee, arrive in Copenhagen for a conference. At his hotel, Michael gets a telegram telling him a book awaits him at a local shop. Finding a message in the book, he tells Sarah he has to go to Sweden immediately. On checking up, she finds that he is really bound for East Berlin.


Books with substantial mentioning of Torn Curtain

Christopher D. Morris
The Hanging Figure, On Suspence and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2002

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1985, A Survey of 1984 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1985
pp. 644-648 info

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Lawrence J. Quirk
The Films of Paul Newman
New York, 1971

Robin Wood
Hitchcock's Films
New York, 1969

Books with an entry on Torn Curtain

Larry Langman & David Ebner
Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
New York & London, 1990

Articles on Torn Curtain

Gergely Hubai, Mending the Torn Curtain: a rejected score's place in a discography, in: Steven Rawle and K.J. Donnelly (eds.), Partners in suspense, Manchester, 2017

Steven Rawle, How could you possibly be a Hitchcocko-Herrmannian?: Digitally re-narrativising collaborative authorship, in: Steven Rawle and K.J. Donnelly (eds.), Partners in suspense, Manchester, 2017