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Notorious

  • 19461946
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  • 1h 42m
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Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains in Notorious (1946)
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The daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with t... Read allThe daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?The daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
101K
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POPULARITY
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    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writers
      • Ben Hecht
      • Alfred Hitchcock(screenplay contributor)
      • John Taintor Foote(story "The Song of the Dragon")
    • Stars
      • Cary Grant
      • Ingrid Bergman
      • Claude Rains
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writers
      • Ben Hecht
      • Alfred Hitchcock(screenplay contributor)
      • John Taintor Foote(story "The Song of the Dragon")
    • Stars
      • Cary Grant
      • Ingrid Bergman
      • Claude Rains
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    • 382User reviews
    • 154Critic reviews
    • 100Metascore
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 3 wins & 4 nominations total

    Videos2

    Notorious
    Trailer 2:33
    Notorious
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    Trailer 0:21
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    Photos133

    Claude Rains and Leopoldine Konstantin in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Alfred Hitchcock in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)
    Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in Notorious (1946)

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    Cary Grant
    Cary Grant
    • Devlin
    Ingrid Bergman
    Ingrid Bergman
    • Alicia Huberman
    Claude Rains
    Claude Rains
    • Alexander Sebastian
    Louis Calhern
    Louis Calhern
    • Paul Prescott
    Leopoldine Konstantin
    Leopoldine Konstantin
    • Mme. Sebastian
    • (as Madame Konstantin)
    Reinhold Schünzel
    Reinhold Schünzel
    • 'Dr. Anderson'
    • (as Reinhold Schunzel)
    Moroni Olsen
    Moroni Olsen
    • Walter Beardsley
    Ivan Triesault
    Ivan Triesault
    • Eric Mathis
    Alexis Minotis
    Alexis Minotis
    • Joseph
    • (as Alex Minotis)
    Wally Brown
    Wally Brown
    • Mr. Hopkins
    Charles Mendl
    • Commodore
    • (as Sir Charles Mendl)
    Ricardo Costa
    • Dr. Barbosa
    E.A. Krumschmidt
    • Hupka
    • (as Eberhard Krumschmidt)
    Fay Baker
    Fay Baker
    • Ethel
    Bernice Barrett
    • File Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Bea Benaderet
    Bea Benaderet
    • File Clerk
    • (uncredited)
    Candido Bonsato
    • Waiter
    • (uncredited)
    Charles D. Brown
    • Judge
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writers
      • Ben Hecht
      • Alfred Hitchcock(screenplay contributor) (uncredited)
      • John Taintor Foote(story "The Song of the Dragon") (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      After filming had ended, Cary Grant kept the famous UNICA key. A few years later he gave the key to his great friend and co-star Ingrid Bergman, saying that the key had given him luck and hoped it would do the same for her. Many years later, at a tribute to director Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Bergman went off-script and presented the key to him, to his surprise and delight.
    • Goofs
      When Devlin and Alicia go to find Sebastian riding horses, there is a quick two second shot of all four characters next to each other on horses and two arms are visible walking the horses of Sebastian and the woman he is riding with.
    • Quotes

      Alicia: Say it again, it keeps me awake.

      Devlin: I love you.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: Miami, Florida, Three-Twenty P.M., April the Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six....
    • Alternate versions
      When released in West Germany in 1951 "Weißes Gift" (White Poison), the plot was significantly changed. Instead of Nazi agents, the villains became drug-trafficking bandits. The names of the characters were also changed to avoid any reference to Nazi Germany and spying:
      • The Ingrid Bergman character was called 'Elisa Sombrapal' (as opposed to Alicia Huberman), Claude Rains was called 'Aldo Sebastini' (instead of Alexander Sebastian), Leopoldine Konstantin was referred as 'Frau Sebastini'. Similarly, Ivan Triesault was called Enrico (instead of Eric Mathis) and the E.A. Krumschmidt character (originally called Emil Hupka) was rechristened 'Ramon Hupka'.
    • Connections
      Edited into Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      Carnaval, Op. 9, Scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes: 'Chopin'
      (uncredited)

      Written by Robert Schumann

      Performed in the distance as Alicia enters Alex's house for the first time

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    9/10
    Romance -- Hitchcock style
    Dark, cruel, beautifully photographed, and deeply erotic, Notorious in one of Hitchcock's very best. It's remarkably sexual and sophisticated story from a time in Hollywood where the power of the Breen Office was at its apex. Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman) is the daughter of a convicted Nazi. American agent Devlin (Cary Grant) contacts her and convinces her to spy against some of her father's Nazi colleagues in Brazil. The chief of these of Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains), one of the most genial Nazis depicted on the silver screen, who has a crush on Alicia. Of course, Alicia has fallen madly in love with Devlin, and he with her, though he could never admit it, and instead pushes her to seduce Sebastian to obtain his secrets. He wants her for the mission when she accept, he brands her a whore. Only a whore would sleep with a man for his secrets, right? Hitchcock gathers some of Hollywood's best and casts them against type. Ingrid Bergman, who hitherto had played a fair number of virginal ingénues, plays Alicia Huberman, a powerfully sensual woman but also a drunken nymphomaniac. You get the sense that she can merely stroke Devlin's cold, frozen face and bring him magically to life. The great comic-acrobat-sophisticate Cary Grant is cast as the emotionally stunted and almost sadistic T.R. Devlin, a mysterious secret agent who recruits Alicia to work for the government. Cary Grant utilizes his inherent reticence to create a character who is isolated and closed off, who can lash out and act disinterested so easily toward the woman he loves. Claude Rains, with his rich English voice and amiable face plays Nazi Alex Sebastian, a rather nice fellow who happens be plotting against the United States. He is genuinely in love with Alicia and when he learns of her betrayal, his despair and terror is palpable and moving. Madame Constantin, imported especially by Hitchcock from Germany for this film is the brilliant and icy cold Madame Sebastian, Alex's powerful mother. In one particular scene she smokes a cigarette with a malice unequaled by any actress in Hollywood history. It's like she has it clasped in her talons. Louis Calhern is Devlin's boss, breezy, narrow minded, and casually misogynistic.

    Notorious is a very stylish production. Ingrid Bergman, who usually wore little makeup in her films, has a very natural sensuality and wears lovely 40s hats and suits very elegantly. Cary Grant is hitting his stride as the fashion icon he later became in the 50s. The suits are slimmer than they were in earlier roles and help emphasize Grant's lean and powerful, but graceful, physicality. Hitchcock's camera is characteristically authoritative, shaping the audience's impressions. It is very open to Bergman and very closed to Grant. Bergman is often shot in close ups and medium shots, and in flattering soft focus, and in accessible to the audience. Her heartrending luminosity, used so brilliantly in Casablanca is used again here by Hitchcock. Grant, on the other hand, is several times shot with his back to the camera, looking away from from the camera or with his face obscured by shadows. You suspect, but you never really KNOW what Devlin is feeling for the majority of the film. Grant is inscrutable and here is really demonstrating his economy --and brilliance-- as a performer. Sometimes he does seem a bit too stiff, especially since we know that he's capable of doing Dr. David Huxley and Editor-in-chief Walter Burns, but most actors wouldn't have dared to give such an understated performance as Grant does here.

    The world of Notorious is very insular. Most of the film, with the exception of the love scenes, is indoors. Any other scenes that find the characters outdoors find the characters closed off. Barricaded between objects or people. All this gives the film a claustrophobic feel, like Devlin and Alicia have no place to hide and no place to breathe. People said that Hitchcock disliked actors. I don't think that's true, but Hitchcock seems to have extraordinary control over the technical aspects of filming. In order scenes to work actors must explicitly follow direction; they are the tools of film-making. All this attention to detail is absolutely necessary considering the complex composition of many of his scenes. The reputed "Longest kiss in film history" where Devlin and Alicia embrace and talk and kiss for several is a very intricate piece of blocking as the characters move from one room to another, Devlin speaks on the phone, reach, turn etc... If Hitchcock worked like someone like Howard Hawks, for instance, this sort of scene wouldn't be possible.

    Since this is a Hitchcock film, people may be mislead into thinking that it's a thriller. It's not. It's really a perverse romance. The characters are more intricately drawn than they are in thrillers. Indeed, plot and character development seem to be equally important. The story does not move quickly but you don't really notice, you're too busy being immersed in Hitchcock's world. Thrilling, sexy, and moving, Notorious is highly recommended
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    • Release date
      • September 6, 1946 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Portuguese
    • Also known as
      • Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious
    • Filming locations
      • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Production companies
      • RKO Radio Pictures
      • Vanguard Films
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    • Budget
      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $113,061
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 42 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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