Product Details

• Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant
• Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
• Format: Import, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Korean
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Seil DVD
• DVD Release Date: February 7, 2007
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EEQI3K
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #69,952 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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High quality DVD, official release, manufactured in South Korean. Superior, clear, full screen black and white image. Original English dialog with optional Korean subtitles which can be easily turned off. All region NTSC format. Can be played on any North American DVD player. Many extras in special features section. Cast: Cary Grant .... T.R. Devlin; Ingrid Bergman .... Alicia Huberman Sebastian; Claude Rains .... Alexander Sebastian; Louis Calhern .... Captain Paul Prescott; Leopoldine Konstantin .... Madame Anna Sebastian (as Madame Konstantin); Reinhold Schünzel .... Professor; Wilhelm Renzler (as Reinhold Schunzel); Moroni Olsen .... Walter Beardsley. The following review sums up the movie well:Post-War Espionage and Romance in Rio, September 21, 2005 Reviewer: Paul Kellogg (New York, NY)Elegant Cary Grant and beautiful Ingrid Bergman play the leads. Grant is Devlin, an American intelligence agent; Bergman acts the part of Alicia Huberman, daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, and party girl. The American government has an assignment for Miss Huberman in Rio; Devlin delivers the proposal. She is to infiltrate a group of Nazi scientists working on atomic energy. She accepts. Though the leads are romantically attracted, Grant's Devlin tries to maintain a cool distance, yet simultaneously manages to criticize a colleague's wife when he says that Bergman's character is "not a lady." Bergman's Huberman gains entry to the Nazi circle, and then offers to marry the man who's running the operation. That's Alex Sebastian - played by Claude Rains. He's totally smitten with Bergman, but he's also a mama's boy. Mama runs his home, and also finds time to help him when he discovers he's "married to an American agent." These Nazis are a nasty lot. Suspenseful finale.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bergman at her best, March 18, 2007

By	Russ Evans "Blackdog" (Golden, CO USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Although not one of her nominated films, this one has everything: Hitchcock, Grant, Raines, intrigue, sacrifice, and a deeply complicated love story. This film has stood the test of time better than some of her others (Gaslight for example) and is well-paced with strong dialog and characterizations. For anyone who wonders why Miss Bergman remains in the all-time top five 25 years after her death, and why Cary Grant thought she should get an award every year whether she made a picture or not, this is the film to see. The DVD is well made and appears to be a good transfer.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great film, great cast at their prime, July 2, 2007

By	T. Marchand "momster2002" (Argyle, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This is truly one of the greatest Hitchcock films. Cary Grant is at his all-time best as is Ingrid Bergman and their chemistry sizzles. (The famous kiss scene got around time limits set by censors of the period by--barely-- breaking up the actual liplock from time to time as they work their way to the door.) No wonder Hollywoood paired them again in their later years, but "Indiscreet" couldn't touch the magic of "Notorious." I've watched and re-watched this one more than I can count. The plot is interesting, characters complex, the setting intriguing, and-of course-the camera angles are superb.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hitchcock and Bergman at Their Zenith in Brilliant Thriller, March 16, 2008

By	Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

It's difficult to identify the exact pinnacle of Alfred Hitchcock's masterworks, especially as he had a most fruitful period during the 1950's until the 1960 classic Psycho, but this 1946 melodrama is arguably his most perfectly crafted and cast film. First, there is a sharp, intensely plotted script by the estimable Ben Hecht that focuses on Alicia Huberman, the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, and T.R. Devlin, an American agent hired to convince Alicia to spy on a clandestine group of neo-Nazis based in Rio de Janeiro. This means she would have to seduce and eventually marry Alex Sebastian, a key group member who has never gotten over Alicia in his heart.

This triangle is embodied by three stars at the height of their powers. A primarily poker-faced Cary Grant portrays Devlin close to the vest and charismatically hides his emotions under a veil of cold arrogance. In a series of scenes that pierce with a subverted eroticism, Devlin falls in love with Alicia but cannot find the courage to admit that to himself or to her. Claude Rains, on the other hand, imbues Sebastian with such an open romanticism and sad streaks of jealousy that we can actually sympathize with a Nazi war criminal a year after WWII ended, quite a daring feat within the film's historical context.

At the vortex, though, is Ingrid Bergman, who probably gives her most accomplished performance as Alicia. At the time, she was deified as the chaste Mother Superior in Leo McCarey's harmless The Bells of St. Mary's with Bing Crosby. Bergman turned a smart corner here as a "loose" woman in love with the bottle until she is transformed by her love for Devlin, at which point, she becomes a stylish decoy to draw the naïve Sebastian to her alluring charms. Ethereally beautiful and constantly pained, she conveys much of her character's feelings through her eyes and subtle facial expressions because she and Grant portray two people who can't admit they desperately want to be together even if her life depends on it. Their failure to communicate leads to Alicia sinking deeper into the morass of some nasty espionage business that ultimately puts her life in jeopardy.

The chemistry between the two legends is palpable, especially in the then-controversial, three-minute kissing sequence that put censors into a tizzy. However, above all, this is a Hitchcock film, the film is filled with his genius for ingenious subjective camerawork and suspenseful set pieces, the latter perfectly illustrated by the party sequence at Sebastian's mansion starting with an unbelievable dolly shot right into Alicia's hand clasping the cellar key, which she passes to Devlin to find what is being hidden in the wine bottles. There are intriguing performances on the sidelines with Louis Calhern as the head of the American agency in Rio and the intimidating Madame Konstantin as Alex's ice-cold mother, both displaying a Machiavellian spirit to get what they want. This is a true classic and required viewing for any fan of Hitchcock, Bergman, Grant or Rains.