Notorious

Notorious

15/8/1946 1h 43m 7.7/10

Overview

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Top Billed Cast

Cary Grant

Cary Grant

T.R. Devlin

Ingrid Bergman

Ingrid Bergman

Alicia Huberman

Claude Rains

Claude Rains

Alexander Sebastian

Leopoldine Konstantin

Leopoldine Konstantin

Madame Anna Sebastian

Louis Calhern

Louis Calhern

Captain Paul Prescott

Alex Minotis

Alex Minotis

Joseph

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/7/2022

7/10

Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant just ooze charisma in this classic Hitchcock story of espionage and romance. She ("Alicia") has taken to the bottle following the conviction of her Nazi father and is heading down the slippery slope when she is approached by "Devlin" (Grant) who offers her a chance to redeem herself. She is to ingratiate herself with a group of her father's cohorts in Rio and feed back her intelligence to the CIA. Once in Rio, she is reunited with her arch-Nazi admirer "Alexander" (Claude Rains) and, at the insistence of her new boss (Louis Calhern) she marries him. What now ensues is a cleverly developing tale of treachery and betrayal tempered with plenty of humour and a little romance (of course she and "Devlin" fall for each other). The photography is both grand and intimate, Roy Webb has scored this perfectly and Hitchcock uses Ben Hecht's story to full effect. This is a classic piece of cinema that I saw quite recently on a big screen - and it is well worth watching again!

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