Notorious
Deep their love! Great the risk!
Country
Production
Budget
$2 000 000
Revenue
$10 464 000
Director
Actors
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schünzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Alex Minotis, Wally Brown
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Keon
Operator
Ted Tetzlaff
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Theron Warth
All team (28)
All team (28)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Hitchcock also claimed that the FBI monitored him during filming, as the film featured uranium for an atomic bomb, and the Manhattan Project (the project to create the atomic bomb in the USA) was then America's top military secret. Allegedly, the FBI became interested in Hitchcock after he and Heck visited Dr. Millikan at the California Institute of Technology in May or June 1945 and discussed the possibility of creating nuclear weapons. There is no documentary evidence of the FBI monitoring Hitchcock. However, it is known that in May 1945, Selznick received a warning from the FBI stating that all films dealing with American intelligence officers must receive approval from the relevant government agencies before release.
- Interestingly, the height difference between Claude Rains and Ingrid Bergman was so noticeable in close-ups that when they appeared in the frame together, Rains had to stand on a box. During the filming of the scene where they meet walking towards each other, an uneven wooden platform had to be set up, which was raised as Rains approached the camera.
- Filming was mainly done in a studio, and a rear projection screen was used in some scenes (for example, in the scene where a police officer stops the protagonists' car on a night road).
- In 2006, the film was added to the National Film Registry for films of cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance.
- The renowned film critic Roger Ebert repeatedly confessed that 'Notorious' was his favorite Hitchcock film. In 1991, he included it in his list of the ten greatest films in history.
- Although Hitchcock always maintained that he conceived the story with uranium stored in wine bottles long before the atomic bombings of Japan (even during work on the screenplay with Heckher in early 1945), thus becoming a kind of prophet who predicted the creation of the atomic bomb, the facts indicate that the corresponding changes to the script were made shortly before filming began in the fall of 1945, i.e., after the atomic bombs had already been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- The director's cameo (at 60 min.) – Hitchcock appears at a large reception at Alex Sebastian's house. He is one of the guests, drinking champagne.
- During the filming, Hitchcock poked fun at the restrictions that existed in Hollywood at the time. In particular, an on-screen kiss, according to the rules of the time, should not have lasted more than a couple of seconds. Hitchcock figured out how to circumvent this restriction: his characters continuously exchange light kisses while moving around the room towards the ringing phone.
- Hitchcock also claimed that the FBI monitored him during filming because the movie featured uranium for an atomic bomb, and the Manhattan Project (the US project to create an atomic bomb) was America's top military secret at the time. Allegedly, the FBI became interested in Hitchcock after he and Hecht visited Dr. Millikan at the California Institute of Technology in May or June 1945 to discuss the possibility of creating nuclear weapons. There is no documentary evidence of FBI surveillance of Hitchcock. However, it is known that in May 1945, Selznick received a warning from the FBI stating that all films featuring American intelligence officers must receive approval from the relevant government agencies before being released.
- Interestingly, the height difference between Claude Rains and Ingrid Bergman was so striking in close-ups that whenever they appeared in the frame together, Rains had to stand on a box. During the filming of the scene where they meet while walking toward each other, an uneven wooden platform had to be used, which rose as Rains approached the camera.
- Although Hitchcock always claimed that he came up with the story about uranium stored in wine bottles long before the nuclear strikes on Japan (back while working on the script with Hecht in early 1945), thus positioning himself as a sort of prophet who predicted the creation of the atomic bomb, the facts show that the corresponding changes to the script were made shortly before filming began in the fall of 1945—that is, after the atomic bombs had already been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- The director's cameo (at 60 min.) — Hitchcock appears at a large party at Alex Sebastian's house. He is one of the guests, drinking champagne.
- During the production of the film, Hitchcock poked fun at the restrictions that existed in Hollywood at the time. In particular, according to the rules of the era, an on-screen kiss was not supposed to last more than a couple of seconds. Hitchcock figured out how to bypass this restriction: his characters constantly exchange light kisses while moving across the room toward a ringing telephone.
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