Notorious (1946 film)

Notorious
Notorious
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Alfred Hitchcock
Written by	Ben Hecht
Produced by	Alfred Hitchcock
Starring	Cary Grant; Ingrid Bergman; Claude Rains; Louis Calhern; Leopoldine Konstantin
Cinematography	Ted Tetzlaff
Edited by	Theron Warth
Music by	Roy Webb
Production; companies	RKO Radio Pictures; Vanguard Films
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	August 15, 1946 (New York City); September 6, 1946 (United States);
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1 million
Box office	$24.5 million

Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.

The film follows U.S. government agent T. R. Devlin (Grant), who enlists the help of Alicia Huberman (Bergman), the daughter of a German war criminal, to infiltrate a circle of executives of IG Farben hiding out in Rio de Janeiro after World War II. The situation becomes complicated when the two fall in love as Huberman is instructed to seduce Alex Sebastian (Rains), a Farben executive who had previously been infatuated with her. It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946.

Notorious is considered by critics and scholars to mark a watershed for Hitchcock artistically, and to represent a heightened thematic maturity. His biographer, Donald Spoto, writes that "Notorious is in fact Alfred Hitchcock's first attempt—at the age of forty-six—to bring his talents to the creation of a serious love story, and its story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this stage of his life."^[4] In 2006, Notorious was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

^ ^a ^b "Notorious: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
^ Variety (February 19, 2018). "Variety (September 1945)". New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company – via Internet Archive.
^ Box Office Information for Notorious. The Numbers. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
^ Spoto, Donald (1983). The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-345-31462-X. p. 304. Page numbers cited in this article are from the Ballantine Books first paperback edition, 1984

[afi-1] "Notorious: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 29, 2014.

[2] Variety (February 19, 2018). "Variety (September 1945)". New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company – via Internet Archive.

[3] Box Office Information for Notorious. The Numbers. Retrieved November 8, 2012.

[spotomain-4] Spoto, Donald (1983). The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-345-31462-X. p. 304. Page numbers cited in this article are from the Ballantine Books first paperback edition, 1984

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