Notorious is a film containing a romantic flow chopped up with Nazis, death and of course classic Hitchcockian suspense! One of Alfred Hitchcock's loved Classics featuring two of his favorites actors, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Together Grant and Bergman (in my personal opinion) create an on-screen chemistry never before seen in a Hitchcock film.
Alicia (Ingrid Bergman) is the "notorious" woman sought out by the american government to uncover secret nazi business down in the incensed climate of Brazil. Alicia and her contact agent, Devlin (Cary Grant), must mask their love for each other in order to succeed in Alicia's undercover work to gather information from Alex Sabastian (Claude Rains) and his Nazi counter parts. Unfortunatly, all does not go well for Alicia... will Devlin be able to save his love for Alicia as well as Alicia's life!
One of Hitchcocks favorite moments in the film is the three-minute balcony kissing scene between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in which they nibble and kiss each other on the ears, nose and lips. This was Hitchcock's way of cheating out the Hollywood censors about prolonged kissing. This love scene created, in Hitchcock's opinion:
"a kind of temporary ménage à trois"
between the audience, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman. It is said that Hitchcock's main concern for this movie was to get the love story out of it.
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