Notorious

Directed by	Alfred Hitchcock
Written by	Ben Hecht
Starring	Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains
Produced by	Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	August 15, 1946
Runtime	101 min.
Language	English
Budget	$2,000,000
IMDb page

Notorious was a 1946 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a Nazi spy. She is hired by the U.S. government to spy on a group of Germans who have relocated to Brazil after World War II. Notorious This is a copyrighted poster. ... Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the thriller genre. ... Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was one of the most prolific of all Hollywood screenwriters, even though he professed hatred and disdain for the motion picture industry. ... Cary Grant Cary Grant (Horfield, Bristol, England, January 18, 1904 – Davenport, Iowa, USA, November 29, 1986) was an English-born actor in mostly American films. ... Ingrid Bergman at 14 Ingrid Bergman   listen? (August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning Swedish actress. ... Claude Rains (November 10, 1889 - May 30, 1967) was an English actor. ... Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the thriller genre. ... The classic logo of RKO Radio Pictures. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Alfred Hitchcock Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was a British film director closely associated with the thriller genre. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ...

Grant plays T. R. Devlin, the American agent she works for. Rains plays Alex Sebastian, the German spy.

The picture fell under scrutiny at the time of its release for a long embrace between Bergman and Grant. Censorship of the period limited the amount of time a couple on screen could kiss, and Hitchcock circumvented this restriction by having his lovers maintain close physical contact while moving across the room making dinner plans. Such extended close-ups of lovers became a Hitchcock trademark. Similar examples occur in Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, and North by Northwest. In film, a close-up is a shot that is closely zoomed in on a person or object. ... Rear Window (1954) is a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrichs short story It Had to Be Murder (1942). ... To Catch a Thief is a movie made in 1955, and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams. ... North By Northwest is a 1959 MGM thriller by Alfred Hitchcock and is generally considered one of his best works. ...

Critics have noted a "beverage motif" that runs throughout the picture: at the beginning of the film, Alicia is portrayed as a dipsomaniac and bottles and glasses are prominent in many scenes; later, Alicia and Devlin discover the uranium (the film's MacGuffin) in wine bottles in Sebastian's cellar; finally, Sebastian and his mother attempt to kill Alicia by poisoning her coffee. General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block ?, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic Atomic mass 238. ... This article is about the plot device; a MacGuffin is also a block cipher named after the plot device. ...

Interestingly, Hitchcock and screenwriter Ben Hecht chose to use uranium as their central plot device before the use of nuclear weapons in Japan. Hitchcock later alleged that he was under FBI surveillance because of this. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...

Awards and nominations

• Best Supporting Actor (nomination) - Claude Rains

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Claude Rains (November 10, 1889 - May 30, 1967) was an English actor. ...

External link

• Notorious at the Internet Movie Database
• Classic Movies: Notorious (1946)