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Notorious
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*Notorious* is a 1946 American black-and-white spy film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The cast includes Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Louis Calhern. The screenplay was written by Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, and Clifford Odets, with music composed by Roy Webb. RKO Pictures served as the production company and distributor. The film is set in Rio de Janeiro and features dialogue in English, French, and Portuguese.
The movie has a runtime of 102 minutes and was released in 1946. It received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Writing, Original Screenplay. Critical reception included a Metascore of 100 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 96%. The film was distributed in video on demand formats and later by Netflix.
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Film · TMDB
7.7In 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.
Cast
- Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin
- Ingrid Bergman as Alicia Huberman
- Claude Rains as Alexander Sebastian
- Leopoldine Konstantin as Madame Anna Sebastian
- Louis Calhern as Captain Paul Prescott
- Alex Minotis as Joseph
Themes
- daughter
- marriage proposal
- nazi
- undercover
- espionage
- atomic bomb
- love at first sight
- poison
- spy
- fbi
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
113,367 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
100/100
- Year
- 1946
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Genres
- Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- Ben Hecht
- Produced by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Starring
- Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Claude Rains Louis Calhern Leopoldine Konstantin
- Cinematography
- Ted Tetzlaff
- Edited by
- Theron Warth
- Music by
- Roy Webb
- Production companies
- RKO Radio Pictures Vanguard Films
- Distributed by
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Release dates
- August 15, 1946 ( 1946-08-15 ) ( New York City ) September 6, 1946 ( 1946-09-06 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1 million
- Box office
- $24.5 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Internet Archive
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Encyclopedic overview
Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.
The film follows U.S. government agent T. R. Devlin (Grant), who enlists the help of Alicia Huberman (Bergman), the daughter of a convicted German spy, to infiltrate a group of German emigrés hiding out in Rio de Janeiro after World War II. The situation becomes complicated when the two fall in love as Huberman is instructed to seduce Alex Sebastian (Rains), an IG Farben executive who had previously been infatuated with her. It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946.
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