Notorious

"Deep their love! Great the risk!"

1946 1h 43m EN

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7.7

BANGER

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96%

CERTIFIED FRESH

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100

METACRITIC

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7.9

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★7.7TMDB · 1,806🍅96%Rotten Tomatoes●100Metacritic★7.9IMDB · 113,367

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Synopsis

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In 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.

“Deep their love! Great the risk!”

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Cast

Cary Grant
Devlin
Ingrid Bergman
Alicia Huberman
Claude Rains
Alexander Sebastian
Louis Calhern
Paul Prescott
Leopoldine Konstantin
Madame Sebastian
Reinhold Schünzel
Dr. Anderson
Moroni Olsen
Walter Beardsley
Ivan Triesault
Eric Mathis

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: John Taintor Foote, Ben Hecht
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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MONEY

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Grossed $25M — a 12.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.

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ERA

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80 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, shot by Ted Tetzlaff. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Roy Webb. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Theron Warth shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Deep their love! Great the risk!".

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The take

Alfred Hitchcock directs. Ted Tetzlaff behind the camera. Roy Webb scores. Theron Warth cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
2Grossed $25M — a 12.3× return. The kind of profit studios chase for a decade.
380 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
4Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, shot by Ted Tetzlaff. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Roy Webb. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Theron Warth shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Deep their love! Great the risk!".
9IMDB entry: tt0038787 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 20 themes, including "daughter", "marriage proposal", "nazi", "undercover".
11Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ted Tetzlaff
Original score: Roy Webb
Editing: Theron Warth
Costume design: Edith Head
Makeup / hair: Mel Berns
Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $2,000,000
Box office: $24,500,000
Return: 1225% of budget
Original language: EN
IMDB: Notorious (1946)
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 100/100
IMDB rating: 7.9/10 · 113,367 votes
MPAA: Approved

Awards

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 3 nominations total

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Andres Gomez2012-10-28
★ 8/10
Good thriller from Alfred Hitschcock.
CinemaSerf2022-07-07
★ 7/10
Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant just ooze charisma in this classic Hitchcock story of espionage and romance. She ("Alicia") has taken to the bottle following the conviction of her Nazi father and is heading down the slippery slope when she is approached by "Devlin" (Grant) who offers her a chance to redeem herself. She is to ingratiate herself with a group of her father's cohorts in Rio and feed back her intelligence to the CIA. Once in Rio, she is reunited with her arch-Nazi admirer "Alexander" (Claude Rains) and, at the insistence of her new boss (Louis Calhern) she marries him. What now ensues is a cleverly developing tale of treachery and betrayal tempered with plenty of humour and a little romance (of course she and "Devlin" fall for each other). The photography is both grand and intimate, Roy Webb has scored this perfectly and Hitchcock uses Ben Hecht's story to full effect. This is a classic piece of cinema that I saw quite recently on a big screen - and it is well worth watching again!