Notorious
1946  NR  DRAMA  1h 41min
CAST— Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen
MUSIC— Roy Webb  DIRECTOR— Alfred Hitchcock

     Intriguing spy drama centering on the love/hate relationship between FBI agent Cary Grant and socialite Ingrid Bergman. He needs her to do a little espionage work in Rio where some of her father’s old cronies have been doing some bad stuff for the wrong side on the old war front. The job involves more than a little danger, and that’s too bad, because this agent and his new partner begin to fall in love. More complications arise when one of her main sources of illegal information asks her to marry him. It’s not so easy being a spy. The drama unfolds at a fast clip, and the tension remains tight throughout in this classic Hitchcock thriller. P.S.: Watch for the man himself, Hitchcock, guzzling champagne at a super-snotty black-tie shindig. Deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.
OUR RATING— ***