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Notorious [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] - Alfred Hitchcock

Notorious ()

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin

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Though Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious was produced by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, Selznick himself had little to do with the production, which undoubtedly pleased the highly independent Hitchcock. Ingrid Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, who goes to hell in a handbasket after her father, an accused WWII traitor, commits suicide. American secret agent Devlin (Cary Grant) is ordered to enlist the libidinous Alicia's aid in trapping Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), the head of a Brazilian neo-Nazi group. Openly ...

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Wiener

Nov 23, 2014

Beauty and the Beast

Cary Grant strikes me as a somewhat wooden navel-gazer in his films, but if you like Ingrid Bergman this is a film to watch. The camera portrays her beauty with effortless virtuosity. But why it is called "Notorious" is a mystery to me.Next to Ingrid Bergman my favourite characters in this film were the German agents.

Sharon

Feb 7, 2012

A Spellbinding Movie

Notorious is one of my all-time favorite movies. Why it isn't better known is beyond me.

I won't give away any of the plot, but will say that the movie combines spy drama and romance in an amazing way. Because of the age, much of the story is really in the context and needs to read between the lines. But I think its all the more powerful and enjoyable for that.

The ending is gripping and perfectly suspenseful. Even though I know word-for-word and step-by-step what's going to happen next, I am on the edge of my seat every single time.

For anyone new to Hitchcock or who thinks that Hitchcock starts and ends with Psycho, there is so much more to his movies. Notorious doesn't have some of the breezy comedy that to Catch a Thief or The Man Who Knew Too Much do, but it's a terrific drama. Never gory, never too obvious. A perfect evening!

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