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Notorious (1946) -- A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
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Writer:
Ben Hecht (written by)
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Release Date:
6 September 1946 (USA) more
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Notorious woman of affairs... Adventurous man of the world! more
Plot:
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination more
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One of Hitchcock's most thrilling examinations of psychosexual ambiguity more (178 total)

Cast

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Cary Grant ... T.R. Devlin

Ingrid Bergman ... Alicia Huberman

Claude Rains ... Alexander Sebastian
Louis Calhern ... Captain Paul Prescott
Leopoldine Konstantin ... Madame Anna Sebastian (as Madame Konstantin)
Reinhold Schünzel ... Dr. Anderson (as Reinhold Schunzel)
Moroni Olsen ... Walter Beardsley
Ivan Triesault ... Eric Mathis
Alex Minotis ... Joseph - Sebastian's Butler
Wally Brown ... Mr. Hopkins
Charles Mendl ... Commodore (as Sir Charles Mendl)
Ricardo Costa ... Dr. Julio Barbosa
Eberhard Krumschmidt ... Emil Hupka
Fay Baker ... Ethel
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
101 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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David O. Selznick sold the rights to RKO Pictures in order to finance part of Duel in the Sun (1946), which was over-budget and behind schedule. more
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Continuity: When Devlin and Alicia are having a drink at an outside table in a busy cafe, the same portion of background film was used in two separate parts of their dialogue (a man walks away from the camera, then a waiter approaches a distant table and starts to put down some drinks from his tray). more
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[Title card]: Miami, Florida, Three-Twenty P.M., April the Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Six...
[reporters and photographers converse amongst themselves outside the courtroom]
Judge: Is there any legal reason why sentence should not be pronounced?
District Attorney: No, your honor.
John Huberman: Yes, I have something to say. You can put me away, but you can't put away what's going to happen to you, and to this whole country next time. Next time we are going...
Defense Counsel: [whispering] I wouldn't say any more. We'll need that for the appeal.
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36 out of 44 people found the following comment useful.
One of Hitchcock's most thrilling examinations of psychosexual ambiguity, 25 October 1999
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Author: allyjack from toronto

One of Hitchcock's most thrilling examinations of psychosexual ambiguity, with the Grant-Bergman relationship veering from an initial meet-cute to genuine (beautifully conveyed) mutual delight to sadistic manipulation - he makes a whore of her and forces the fact again and again into her face, seldom giving an inch until the very end, where his change of heart has a largely tacked on feeling. We first see him from behind, quietly, predatorily watching at one of her drunken parties; they go for a drive and we see his hand poised to grab the wheel even as he pretends to submit himself to her drunken control over the car - it sets the tone, for Grant never relents on his desire to possess her, and reacts all too like a spurned lover to events, belittling her love even as she continually reasserts it; the callousness with which he distances himself from her after learning of her assignment is breathtaking. The main plot can hardly match the complexity of the central relationship, even though it's an excellently constructed yarn, with the fine set pieces of the party and the ultimate escape, which is essentially a battle between Rains and Grant for possession of the weakened Bergman - a finale which emphasizes how she's always been a prisoner, of her father's myth, of the male system, of her own emotions.

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