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Notorious (1946)
Alfred Hitchcock entertains me yet again with an extremely good movie full of suspense and sophisticated directing skills. This film surely belongs in my top 10 best Hitchcock movies.
Besides Hitchcock's wonderful directing, we also have Ingrid Bergman, my favorite actrice of all time, Cary Grant and Claude Rains, playing some of the best characters out of their entire filmography.
The film starts in Miami, where Alicia's father has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, because of conspiracy with the nazi regime.
When she gives a home party, a drunk Alicia notices a party crasher, named Devlin. He seems to be a secret agent, who tries to convince her to work for the government as a double agent and a spy in Brazil, because the nazis would probably trust Alicia because of her father.
At first she doesn't want to, but she changes her mind and together with Devlin she flies to Rio, where they wait together untill they get their assignment. During that stay, they fall in love and start an erotic affair.
After spending some lovely time together, Alicia finally gets her assignment. She has to infiltrate into the family of a certain Alexander Sebastian. They chose Alicia, because Alexander used to have a big crush on her and they hope that she can get some inside information by seducing him.
She asks Devlin for advice, but he wants her to make her own choices and when she doesn't feel enough support from Devlin, she decides to do it.
Things really get complicated when Mr. Sebastian asks Alicia to marry him. When she also agrees with that (because of Devlin's cynicism), she slowly comes to know some very interesting information.
During a party at Alexander's house, Alicia and Devlin finally hit the jackpot when they discover uranium in the wine cellar, but they make some small and possibly fatal mistakes...
This film was of a very high quality and I was nailed to my seat during its whole running time. It's certainly a film I will revisit in the future and I immediately put it on the list of brilliant Hitchcock 'gems'!
I rate this movie:
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Alfred Hitchcock entertains me yet again with an extremely good movie full of suspense and sophisticated directing skills. This film surely belongs in my top 10 best Hitchcock movies.
Besides Hitchcock's wonderful directing, we also have Ingrid Bergman, my favorite actrice of all time, Cary Grant and Claude Rains, playing some of the best characters out of their entire filmography.
The film starts in Miami, where Alicia's father has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, because of conspiracy with the nazi regime.
When she gives a home party, a drunk Alicia notices a party crasher, named Devlin. He seems to be a secret agent, who tries to convince her to work for the government as a double agent and a spy in Brazil, because the nazis would probably trust Alicia because of her father.
At first she doesn't want to, but she changes her mind and together with Devlin she flies to Rio, where they wait together untill they get their assignment. During that stay, they fall in love and start an erotic affair.
After spending some lovely time together, Alicia finally gets her assignment. She has to infiltrate into the family of a certain Alexander Sebastian. They chose Alicia, because Alexander used to have a big crush on her and they hope that she can get some inside information by seducing him.
She asks Devlin for advice, but he wants her to make her own choices and when she doesn't feel enough support from Devlin, she decides to do it.
Things really get complicated when Mr. Sebastian asks Alicia to marry him. When she also agrees with that (because of Devlin's cynicism), she slowly comes to know some very interesting information.
During a party at Alexander's house, Alicia and Devlin finally hit the jackpot when they discover uranium in the wine cellar, but they make some small and possibly fatal mistakes...
This film was of a very high quality and I was nailed to my seat during its whole running time. It's certainly a film I will revisit in the future and I immediately put it on the list of brilliant Hitchcock 'gems'!
I rate this movie:
-