Notorious (1946)

Notorious (1946)

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." 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".

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