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 caught in a love triangle. The film 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.
The film was the official selection of the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and had its premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on August 15, 1946, with Hitchcock, Bergman, and Grant in attendance. The film made $4.85 million in theatrical rentals in the United States and Canada on its first release, making it one of the highest-grossing films of the year.
Overseas, it earned $2.3 million, for worldwide rentals of $7.15 million, generating RKO a profit of $1,010,000. Notorious is considered a classic and has received critical acclaim. As of January 2023, it is one of only nine films with a 100 (perfect) score on the movie critic aggregator website, Metacritic.
Plot
The plot revolves around Alicia Huberman, the daughter of a convicted traitor, who is recruited by U.S. Intelligence to spy on a group of Nazis in South America after World War II. Alicia falls in love with the intelligence agent, Devlin, who recruits her, but learns that her mission is to seduce a Nazi industrialist hiding out in South America. The film explores themes of love, trust, betrayal, and patriotism. The film is considered a classic and has received critical acclaim.
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Cast
- Cary Grant as T.R. Devlin
- Ingrid Bergman as Alicia Huberman
- Claude Rains as Alexander Sebastian
- Louis Calhern as Paul Prescott
- Leopoldine Konstantin as Madame Anna Sebastian
- Reinhold Schünzel as Dr. Anderson
- Moroni Olsen as Walter Beardsley
- Ivan Triesault as Eric Mathis
- Alex Minotis as Joseph
- Wally Brown as Mr. Hopkins
- Charles Mendl as Commodore (as Sir Charles Mendl)
- Ricardo Costa as Dr. Julio Barbosa
- Eberhard Krumschmidt as Emil Hupka
- Fay Baker as Ethel
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: John Taintor Foote, Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, Clifford Odets
Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, RKO Radio Pictures, Criterion Collection, Kino International Corp.
Box Office Gross: $113,061
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 15, 1946
Release Date (DVD): Oct 14, 2008