Paul Newman and Julie Andrews stars in this political thriller. 1966. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
The esteemed american physicist and rocket scientist Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) and his assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews), are to attend to a conference in Copenhagen. Michael starts acting mysteriously.
Michael then fly to East Berlin, when Sarah believes that he's really went to Stockholm. She follows him to Berlin, thinking that he has defected to East Berlin. Micheal isn't as he used to be. He's very strange. What's really going on, and is there something bigger then him defecting happening?
Julie Andrews, who "usually" starred in sweet musicals, is really good here. She's not just a singing governess in the Alps. She's an adult, talented actress who can act in thrillers too.
Paul Newman is, of course, great in his role. He's a terrific actor, even if he and Hitchcock argued about the script and such. You can't really notice it in the movie, which is great. Newman didn't come from the same generation as actors like Cary Grant and James Stewart. Newman questioned the script and such, which wasn't appreciated by Hitchcock.
The scene where Michael Armstrong and a woman murders a man would have been much better if it would have had Bernard Herrmans great music too it. I saw the version with music after watching the movie, and the one with music was much better. More exitement.
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