Top 5 moments in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious:<\/b><\/p>\n
1. The kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman – it was the longest kiss in screen history at the time. Because of the morality production codes, no kiss could last longer than 3 seconds. Hitchcock got around this by having them break up the kiss, pulling back, talking, nuzzling each other, nibbling … as they moved from the balcony into the apartment, over to the phone, and then over to the door. All in one long unbroken shot.<\/p>\n
2. When Claude Rains looks up slowly at his evil Nazi mother (played spectacularly by Leopoldine Konstantin) and says, “I am married to an American agent.”<\/p>\n
3. The frenzied sequence in the wine cellar during the party. Ingrid Bergman standing guard, Cary Grant snooping around. Hugely suspenseful.<\/p>\n
4. The scene where Ingrid Bergman realizes her husband and his mother have been slowly poisoning her.<\/p>\n
5. The entire last scene: Cary Grant finally coming to rescue her … the long long descent down the stairway. Apparently, Hitchcock wanted the descent to be longer and more drawn out – and the stairway, although quite long, wasn’t long enough – so he had them back up a couple steps in between takes … and continue the scene – so that the stairway seemed much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Top 5 moments in Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious: 1. The kiss between Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman – it was the longest kiss in screen history at the time. Because of the morality production codes, no kiss could last longer than … Continue reading