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Notorious (1946) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Mono )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1946 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alfred Hitchcock

Written By:
Ben Hecht

Actors:
Cary Grant ..... T.R. Devlin
Ingrid Bergman ..... Alicia Huberman Sebastian
Claude Rains ..... Alexander 'Alex' Sebastian
Louis Calhern ..... Captain Paul Prescott
Leopoldine Konstantin ..... Madame Anna Sebastian (as Madame Konstantin)
Reinhold Schünzel ..... Professor Wilhelm Renzler alias Dr. Anderson (as Reinho
Moroni Olsen ..... Walter Beardsley
Ivan Triesault ..... Eric Mathis
Alex Minotis ..... Joseph, Sebastian's Butler
Wally Brown ..... Mr. Hopkins
Charles Mendl ..... Commodore (as Sir Charles Mendl)
Ricardo Costa ..... Dr. Julio Barbosa
Eberhard Krumschmidt ..... Emil Hupka
Fay Baker ..... Ethel

Synopsis:

One of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, Notorious features the director at his devilishly elegant, self-assured best. A visual masterpiece, it plays like a seamlessly assembled jigsaw puzzle, in which each piece fits together with clean precision. The film's smooth veneer largely creates its visceral impact: lurking beneath the gloss are dealings of the most grotesque sort, their execution made all the more insidious by their sophisticated guise. Aside from containing one of Hitchcock's most famous MacGuffins, the uranium ore, Notorious boasts some of his most famous camerawork, most notably the gorgeous tracking shot during Sebastian's party that takes the viewer from the top of a staircase to Alicia's hand, clenched around the key that will lead her to the uranium ore. The camera moves with the quiet intimacy of an unobserved party guest, almost serpentine in its journey. Similarly ingenious is Hitchcock's use of point-of-view shots, particularly that of Alicia's waking up with a hangover and watching Devlin walk towards her as the camera spins 180 degrees. Seeing through Alicia's eyes, the audience sympathizes with her, making the character one of Hitchcock's most full-blooded and enduring heroines. It goes without saying that the success of Alicia's characterization is in no small part due to Ingrid Bergman's performance: tragic, lovelorn, and marked by logical cynicism, her portrayal of Alicia was one of the best of Bergman's career. She was ably supported by Cary Grant and Claude Rains, the former going against his likeable, effortlessly charismatic persona to play an initially charmless man with morals as questionable as the heroine's are supposed to be. Rains, paired with Bergman again after Casablanca, makes Sebastian into one of the film's more sympathetic characters; it is a mark of Rains' ability that when Sebastian turns to climb the stairs in the film's closing scene, we feel real terror for him. That Sebastian's fate is the result of both his own manipulations of others and his heart's manipulations of himself is at the center of the film's true MacGuffin: masquerading as a Cold War thriller, Notorious is one of the screen's classic black romances.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 24 December, 2020.