Notorious [Special Edition,Criterion Voyager]

DVD - APPROX. 102 MINS. - 1946 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Original Release Date Unknown
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1946
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance

Special features:

  • Commentaries by Hitchcock film scholar Marian Keane and film historian Rudy Behlmer, editor of Memo from David O. Selznick
  • Complete broadcast of the 1948 Lux Radio Theatre adaptation, starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotton
  • Rare production, publicity, and rear projection photos, as well as promotional posters and lobby cards
  • Production correspondence
  • Collection of trailers and teasers
  • Script excerpts of deleted scenes and alternate endings
  • Excerpts from the short story "The Song of the Dragon," source material for Notorious
  • Rare newsreel footage of Bergman and Hitchcock
  • Isolated music and effects track

Synopsis:

Notorious woman of affairs... Adventurous man of the world!

From legendary director Alfred Hitchcock comes this "torrid, tense, tinglingly suspenseful" (Cosmopolitan) film that ranks as one of his best. Oscar Winner Ingrid Bergman "is literally ravishing" (Pauline Kael), and Cary Grant and Claude Rains give "excellent performances" (Variety) in this "taut spy movie that delivers a romantic punch" (The New Yorker)!
 
In Notorious ia brilliant allegory of love and betrayal, Hitchcock fuses two of his favorite elements: suspense and romance. A beautiful woman with a tainted past (Ingrid Bergman) is enlisted by American agent Devlin (Cary Grant) to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex (Claude Rains). Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he's loved her all along. Stunning performances, Ben Hecht's excellent script, and Hitchcock's direction at its best make Notorious a perfect film.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Claude RainsReinhold SchunzelIngrid BergmanLouis CalhernCary GrantLeopoldine KonstantinMoroni Olsen"Notorious"
Written byBen Hechtdirected by Alfred Hitchcock
Production Year: 1946

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