Notorious

Name: Notorious
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance, Film-Noir
Released: September 6, 1946
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 100
Cast: Alexis Minotis, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Ivan Triesault

1946

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RKO Radio Pictures | Release Date: September 6, 1946 | Approved

Starring: Alexis Minotis, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman, Ivan Triesault, Leopoldine Konstantin, Louis Calhern, Moroni Olsen, Reinhold Schünzel, Wally Brown

Summary: 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?

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Romance, Film-Noir

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 101 min

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Janet Maslin

One of the more remarkable things about Notorious is that it hasn't seemed to age; if anything, it grows more timely. [26 Oct 1980, p.17]

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Alasdair Bayman

Notorious is a phenomenally rich experience whether it is on the first or the hundredth viewing. Hitchcock’s most emotionally nuanced and most adult depiction of relationships feels as vital as ever. Read full review

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Bergman and Grant sizzle in this espionage tale written by Ben Hecht. Read full review

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Wally Hammond

A great film. Read full review

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Bosley Crowther

It is obvious that Alfred Hitchcock, Ben Hecht and Ingrid Bergman form a team of motion-picture makers that should be publicly and heavily endowed. With Cary Grant as an additional asset, it is one of the most absorbing pictures of the year. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious is the most elegant expression of the master's visual style, just as Vertigo is the fullest expression of his obsessions. Read full review

Chris Cabin

Love is a dark, corroded obsession in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, a black-velvet biocide brimming with notes of tabloid titillation, spy-versus-spy nonsense, and romance as rotten as a half-eaten Granny Smith left out in the summer sun. Read full review

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TMProofreader3

Aug 23, 2019

The best, GREATEST thrilling romance movie ever made! With the best movie character ever portrayed: Claude Rains as Alexander Sebastian! And the best movie score ever composed!

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gracjanski

Jun 8, 2021

Intelligent movie with a good agent story and interesting characters, where everyone is having a mask. Also the chemistry between Grant and Bergman is working. Hitchcock quality.

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johnny_cubert

Jan 6, 2019

INGRID BERGMAN CARY GRANT and everyone involved at the top of their game. Intriguing story - and some great cinematic Hitchcock moments! LOVE IT

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branflakes4547

Jul 24, 2019

Utterly fantastic film. I'll be honest, the first 30 minutes or so had me questioning if I would like this movie. While Hitchcock is one of my all time favorites, he is hit or miss with me (Vertigo, Shadow of a Doubt, and Strangers on a Train being notable critical darlings that I personallyUtterly fantastic film. I'll be honest, the first 30 minutes or so had me questioning if I would like this movie. While Hitchcock is one of my all time favorites, he is hit or miss with me (Vertigo, Shadow of a Doubt, and Strangers on a Train being notable critical darlings that I personally do not care for.) However, this movie thrillled me om every level. It really picks up. The suspense builds and builds with such marvelous subtlety. Complete masterful work here. I would highly recommend it to any film aficionado.… Expand

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FilipeNeto

Mar 19, 2021

I confess that I expected more from this film. It's good, but it didn't surprise or impress me like others from the same director. Alfred Hitchcock is not only one of the most outstanding film directors ever, he is also one of the most prolific, I think. And the truth is that some of hisI confess that I expected more from this film. It's good, but it didn't surprise or impress me like others from the same director. Alfred Hitchcock is not only one of the most outstanding film directors ever, he is also one of the most prolific, I think. And the truth is that some of his films are better, and others not so much. It depends on the tastes of each one. And this film, a good film, I repeat, did not seem that interesting or surprising to me.

The plot begins well, with a judicial sentence from a German spy, caught on American soil, but then focuses on his daughter, Alicia. And the fact is that I was never able to have any sympathy for the character, who seemed to me a spoiled, self-destructive and foolish girl. The last choice, in my opinion, for an international espionage operation. In any case, she is precisely the one chosen to infiltrate a group of Nazis living in Brazil, thus having the opportunity to clean up her honor. In the midst of all this, there is a romance between her and the agent who recruits her.

As I have already suggested, my biggest problem with this film was the little sympathy I felt for the main character. And that invariably leads me to speak of Ingrid Bergman... to say that she is not to blame for this. The character did not please me and this does not in any way call into question the impeccable work of the actress who, again, gives us an excellent dramatic work. In fact, one of the most interesting points of the film is the way she and Cary Grant act together. They work wonderfully and build good romantic chemistry, restrained but very elegant.

Director Hitchcock is the master of suspense. This film is by no means the most accurate example of the director's abilities, which has excelled in films such as "Rear Window" or "Psycho", but it does not disappoint fans. The espionage plot provides all the elements necessary for a good thriller. Cinematography is important in the work of the director, with a skillful and complex work of filming, an intelligent use of light and shadow, and an elegant and visually beautiful black-and-white, which has surely intentional similarities with aesthetics of cinema noir.… Expand

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CodyZamboni

Jun 15, 2019

Bravura Hitchcock. This ranks in my top five Hitchcock movies. So fun, so romantic, sexy, thrilling as Cary Grant woos Ingrid Bergman to spy on and seduce Nazis. Several classic Hitchcock camera batic sequences. Fine supporting cast led by the stellar Claude Rains.

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All_ButTrU4

Aug 25, 2022

This film fell short for me. Lauded as a masterful thriller it plays like a scattered and rushed love story. The characters are bare,the dialogue disengaging with the cinematography being rather forgetful. Furthermore the whole film felt really long ,I was incredibly bored and found noThis film fell short for me. Lauded as a masterful thriller it plays like a scattered and rushed love story. The characters are bare,the dialogue disengaging with the cinematography being rather forgetful. Furthermore the whole film felt really long ,I was incredibly bored and found no investment in the story. I found the performances quite flat but did appreciate the endings dark ambiguity.… Expand

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