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Notorious

  • 1946
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 42m
IMDb RATING
7.9/10
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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?

  • Director
    • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writers
    • Ben Hecht
    • Alfred Hitchcock
    • John Taintor Foote
  • Stars
    • Cary Grant
    • Ingrid Bergman
    • Claude Rains
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.9/10
    104K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    4,535
    979
    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writers
      • Ben Hecht
      • Alfred Hitchcock
      • John Taintor Foote
    • Stars
      • Cary Grant
      • Ingrid Bergman
      • Claude Rains
    • 401User reviews
    • 156Critic reviews
    • 100Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 3 wins & 4 nominations total

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    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 'Alex' Sebastian
    Louis Calhern
    Louis Calhern
    • Captain Paul Prescott
    Leopoldine Konstantin
    Leopoldine Konstantin
    • Madame 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
    • Emil 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(uncredited)
      • John Taintor Foote(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

      Madame Sebastian: We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity, for a time.

    • 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
    Hitchcock's "perfect" movie.
    *Notorious* may not be Hitchcock's greatest film, but it may very well be his most perfect film. Rarely is a viewer treated to so much talent in all areas of film creation: Hitch directing, Gregg Toland photographing, Ben Hecht writing, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains acting. And everyone is firing on all cylinders.

    What gives *Notorious* its singularity amongst the pantheon of Hitchcock's masterpieces is the highly symbolic, literate, and penetrating script by Hecht. Nominally, the film is about the OSS (the pre-natal version of the CIA) using a compromised young daughter of a condemned, unrepentant Nazi to infiltrate a cell of German expatriates in Rio de Janeiro just after the close of the Second World War. The plot hinges on some nonsense involving "uranium ore" stuffed in wine bottles in the cellar of Claude Rains' mansion. In actuality, the film is nothing less than a dark fugue on alcoholism, and secondarily (and of most interest to the director), invasion of privacy. Thirdly, we are treated to some more of the Master's endless fascination with Freudian slop: yet again, we get the Oedipus Complex in all its ardor, with a domineering old bat wielding the motherly whip-hand on Rains' cuckolded, castrated, romantic ex-pat Nazi.

    But Hecht is interested primarily in alcoholism, and Hitchcock obligingly complies, utilizing a dizzying myriad of symbols and reference points. In the original script, Bergman's Alicia is something of a whore: the filmmakers were forced by the censors to tone this aspect down, thereby bringing Alicia's dependence on booze to the forefront. Indeed, Bergman spends much of her screen-time woozy-headed, whether from alcohol or poisonous coffee (symbolically functioning as the same thing). Very early in the film, she declares at a party, "The important drinking hasn't started yet!" Exactly. Throughout the movie, Bergman drinks in order to escape her unpleasant circumstances or to wash away bouts of low self-esteem. A bottle of champagne bought by Grant becomes a phallic symbol: he forgets it at the offices of the OSS, with arid results when he arrives home to Bergman. Wine bottles are literally the "key" to the plot. Spilled wine in a sink blows her cover. And late in the proceedings, the simple physical act of drinking -- coffee, yes, but the point comes across -- almost kills her.

    There's much more going on here -- too much for a short review, really. Let's finish by asserting that Hitchcock's Forties period was every bit as cinematic as his later, grander, colorized period in the Fifties and Sixties. The slowly swooping shot from the crane, starting from high atop the ceiling of a ballroom and ending up focused on the wine cellar key in Bergman's hand, is merely one famous bravura moment. There are many others:

    Grant approaching a hungover Bergman in bed, in which the camera takes her up-ended POV quite literally; Bergman, overcome with poison, hallucinating the figures of Rains and his mother into monstrous shadows that grow larger and larger, eventually merging into one darkness; the two great tracking shots of Grant and Bergman kissing in her Rio apartment and later when Grant rescues her from her poison bed. The trailers for *Notorious* were already calling Hitchcock the "Master of Suspense" . . . it's easy to see why.

    As for the performances? Cary Grant proves to be a true soldier, spending much of his screen-time either expressionless or with his back turned to the camera (!), unselfishly giving the film to Bergman, even though his part is actually the more interesting one. Bergman, meanwhile, gives one of the best performances of her illustrious career. No two Bergman roles are quite the same; Hitchcock wisely allows her to do some of her own interpretation, particularly early on during the "character-building" scenes (before the plot moves all the characters into their appointed places on the chessboard). Perhaps best of all, both Grant and Bergman were at the very peak of the physical charms: the movie is some serious eye-candy for both genders. 9 stars out of 10.
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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(establishing shots of Rio- specifically racetrack, office building where secret agency located, cafe and park, pedestrians and streets, aerial footage of Rio)
    • 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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