first of all, my thanks to the many who have offered suggestions about the statue that hitchcock foregrounds in one sequence of TORN CURTAIN . . . the answers lead in a quite remarkable [and unexpected] direction for those who may care, here's what i learned 1. the actual museum represented in the film was the Museen zu Berlin, a collection of museums on an island in East Berlin; the specific museum is actually the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery). 2. this museum was behind the iron curtain and inaccessible to hitchcock who worked exclusively with sets and a series of matte paintings by albert whitlock . . . the statue in the movie then would not likely be one in the museum 3. from the description of the statue two different respondents guessed that it would be a statue of prometheus and the eagle . . . . on reflection this seems to me almost certainly on target since fire is so significant a motif is the film 4. finally, so far as i can tell no critic who has written on the TORN CURTAIN, even those who call attention to the importance of the fire motif, have noticed this detail -- or if they have chose not to mention it . . . if anyone is aware of previous comments linking the film explicitly to prometheus i'd very much like to know of them thanks again mike ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu