"Notorious" (1946)

[igenlode]

After watching Hitchcock's "Notorious" for a second or possibly third time, I'm left with precisely the same impression as last time: the only sympathetic character in the film is Alex Sebastian, trapped between an overbearing mother, a much younger wife who is playing him for a fool with her American Secret Service handler, and the confederates who want to see him dead for being fool enough to fall in love with a traitress.
Of course it doesn't help that Claude Rains can act the socks off Cary Grant, and that the designated romance is between two unlikeable characters...

Comments

[betweensunandmoon]

I haven't seen Psycho and don't intend to--horror is very much not my genre. :P

Rear Window is the only Hitchcock film I've enjoyed, probably due to the combination of James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Everything else has been disappointing.

[igenlode]

Yes, I remember enjoying "Rear Window".