Notorious

Pros: Acting, direction, script, cinematography, editing
Cons: Notoriously poor score (no pun intended)

Many film watchers tend to forget about Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1940s, which is mainly due to the success of his films in the 1950s and the early 1960s (most notably films like Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window and...

Pros: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Story, Direction, Cinematography
Cons: Corny process shots - see review

Notorious (1946) "The important drinking hasn't started yet." Alicia Hubermann Ingrid Bergman plays the dishonored daughter (Alicia Hubermann) of an unrepentant Nazi who is convicted of treason and then takes poison to avoid serving ...

Pros: great acting, pace of film, good story
Cons: villain doesn't seem all that villainous

First released in 1946, Notorious built on the fears of Nazis following the Second World War where people were seeing Nazis and conspiracies everywhere. Surprisingly, that’s the one angle of the film that doesn’t hold up quite so ...

Pros: 30% Bergman 30% Grant 30% Rains, 10% Konstantin with a chance of dark before morning
Cons: It takes a little while to get moving..and then ends too soon.

When Ian Fleming was creating his James Bond 007 character, it is said that the guy he had in mind was Cary Grant. No movie better supports this theory than Notorious. Ingrid Bergman, however, could never have been someone so devoid of class as...

Pros: Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Hitchcock
Cons: Not that suspenseful since it's been copied by every hack since

While I used to adore old movies, even when the plots were corny, despite bad or the lack of special effects (sometimes the lack thereof is a relief), I found myself looking upon Notorious with a slightly more critical eye. (Yes, I admit it: I...

Pros: Great acting, cinematography and subtlety make this a suspense classic
Cons: This and other Hitchcock classics have inspired a lot of cinematic poop.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious is a classic suspense film, one that essentially serves as a primer for scores of directors and writers to copy in subsequent decades. With classic performances from Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains, and...

Pros: The depth and breadth of a quality cast. Taut, smooth direction. Wonderful rising suspense
Cons: Takes a while to get into gear.

God Bless the “MacGuffin!” This most well known of director Alfred Hitchcock’s stylistic devices is the force thrusting us beyond the opening of Hitchcock’s 1945 classic “Notorious” starring Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude ...

Pros: Great cast, wonderful script, beautifully shot.
Cons: None that I can think of.

NOTORIOUS isn't one of Hitchcock's more famous films, but it should be. It's one of my favorites, mainly due to the star power of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. They never looked better and, thanks to Hitch, they have marvelous roles to play. One of his...

Pros: fantastic story, beautiful cinematography, terrific cast
Cons: not a one

Though I do love Vertigo and Rebecca I think Notorious must be my favorite Hitchcock film. It has everything: spies, Nazis, forbidden romance, not to mention a cast full of first rate actors. It's also one of the most beautiful films ever made. The...

Pros: Gee, let's see...acting, directing, writing, cinematography. That about covers it.
Cons: If there are any, it takes a better viewer than I to see them.

I admit, I feel unqualified somehow to criticize an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Ever since I saw Rear Window a year ago, I’ve been amazed by his talent, when in the service of a fairly ordinary plot (Strangers on a Train) and more so when he...

Pros: One of the greatest movies of all time
Cons: They don't make them like this anymore.

I've been a Cary Grant fan going way way back. When I saw my first Cary Grant movie at around the age of thirteen or fourteen I immediately fell in love with him. He was everything that a man should be. Beautiful, charming, debonair, suave,...

Pros: Cary Grant at his dramatic best
Cons: None.

Two of my favorite talents, Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock teamed before in Suspicion. The result was less than satisfactory. Cary Grant proved he could play a menacing character with just a few subtle changes in his established persona. He was still...