Recession Cinema: Torn Curtain, Featuring Paul Newman and A Must-See Death Scene

This Sunday, TCM's showing 24 hours of Paul Newman, and movie nerds, like football fans, probably have their tailgating all planned out. Slurp up spaghetti and Newman's Own Sockarooni sauce while Hud drinks and disappoints (6 p.m.). Microwave a bag of Newman's Own Light Butter Popcorn as Cool Hand Luke chokes down fifty hardboiled eggs (10 p.m.). Might we also suggest Newman's Own Organics Dried Fruit Berry Blend, a bowl of granola, and Torn Curtain (10 a.m.)? It's an Alfred Hitchcok thriller about a physicist who fake-defects and the fiancee who, not in on the trick, bumbles after him through the Iron Curtain. The movie, to be honest, kind of blows. This isn't one among the ridiculous, unequaled streak of Hitchcock masterpieces that began with Rear Window and ended nine years later with Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho,... [read full story]