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Notorious (1946)

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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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Leopoldine Konstantin ...
Mme. Sebastian (as Madame Konstantin)
Reinhold Schünzel ...
'Dr. Anderson' (as Reinhold Schunzel)
Moroni Olsen ...
Walter Beardsley
Ivan Triesault ...
Eric Mathis
Alexis Minotis ...
Joseph (as Alex Minotis)
Wally Brown ...
Mr. Hopkins
Charles Mendl ...
Commodore (as Sir Charles Mendl)
Ricardo Costa ...
Dr. Barbosa
Eberhard Krumschmidt ...
Hupka
Fay Baker ...
Ethel
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Storyline

Following the conviction of her German father for treason against the U.S., Alicia Huberman takes to drink and men. She is approached by a government agent (T.R. Devlin) who asks her to spy on a group of her father's Nazi friends operating out of Rio de Janeiro. A romance develops between Alicia and Devlin, but she starts to get too involved in her work. Written by Col Needham <col@imdb.com>

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Spy | Wine Cellar | Wine | German | Love | See more »

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Notorious woman of affairs... Adventurous man of the world! See more »


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6 September 1946 (USA)  »

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Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious  »

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$2,000,000 (estimated)
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1.37 : 1
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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. Decades later at a tribute to their director Alfred Hitchcock, Bergman went off-script and presented the key to him, to his surprise and delight. See more »

Goofs

In the scene where 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. See more »

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[first lines]
[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 ...
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Referenced in This Means War (2012)
One of the Hitchcock movies mentioned by Lauren See more »

Soundtracks

"Carnaval, Op. 9, Scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes: 'Chopin'"
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Written by Robert Schumann
Performed in the distance as Alicia enters Alex's house for the first time
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Bergman and Grants chemistry goes unsurpassed
14 March 1999 | by (Berkeley california) – See all my reviews

Bergman and Grant are the true romantics of cinema. They move throughout the film as if they were acting naturally toward one another. Hitchcock puts them both in closeups especially the illuminating Bergman, capturing the power of the medium.

When Bergman says "Oh, you love me-you love me" in that wonderful close up I have to think to myself, how much I look forward to becoming a film maker. Why can't Hollywood capture moments like these in today's features?

Note how long the kiss lasts as Bergman and Grant move from the balcony to the living room. The lighting and camera positioning are phenomenal. Do not expect the typical Hitchcock here but then again it is hard to say what a typical Hitchcock is. Each of his films contain so many different elements yet, at the same time possess the true signature of an auteur.


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