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Presented as part of BIG PICTURE: A Century of Stories1h 42m / Not Rated / Drama, Thriller, Romance
VENUE: Historic Duncan Auditorium
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Patriotic American Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), whose father is a convicted Nazi spy, gets recruited by a government agent named Devlin (Cary Grant) to fly to Rio and insinuate herself into the household of a spy ring led by Alex Sebastian (Claude Rains). Sebastian once loved her, and perhaps he still does; Devlin is essentially asking her to share the spy’s bed to discover his secrets. And this she is willing to do, because by the time he asks her, she is in love. But not with Sebastian.
All of these arrangements are of course handled with the sort of subtle dialogue and innuendo that Hollywood used to get around the production code. There is never a moment when improper behavior is actually stated or shown, but the film leaves no doubt. Perhaps the fullest expression of director Alfred Hitchcock’s visual style, and what his biographer called his “first attempt […] to bring his talent to the creation of a serious love story,” Notorious opened at Tampa Theatre in November of 1946.
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Post Film Talk program sponsored by Hungry Bull Productions and the Restaino Family Foundation.
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Tampa Theatre, 711 N Franklin St,Tampa,FL,United States
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