Film Bulletin (02/Sep/1946) - What the Newspaper Critics Say About New Films: Notorious
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- article: What the Newspaper Critics Say About New Films: Notorious
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- journal: Film Bulletin (19/Aug/1946)
- issue: volume 14, issue 17, pages 13-16
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- publisher: Film Bulletin Company
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Notorious (1946)
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"NOTORIOUS"
(RKO)
"One of the most absorbing pictures of the year ... Mr. Hecht has written and Mr. Hitchcock has directed in brilliant style a romantic melodrama — which is just about as thrilling as they come — velvet smooth in dramatic action, sharp and sure in its characters and heavily charged with the intensity of warm emotional appeal ... Remarkable blend of love story with expert 'thriller.'" CROWTHER. N. Y. TIMES.
"Whether the mixture of romance and suspense in 'Notorious' is as explosive as it was intended to be, there is no denying the pull and ingratiating charm of the principals, Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant ... More footage is given over to romance than to evil doings and the implication of evil doings, an unusual turn of events in a Hitchcock film ... Movie fans will be wanting to see more of Bergman and Grant as a team of romancers." PIHODNA, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE.
"Most exciting movie session of the year ... Relentless fascination." COOK, N. Y. WORLD TELEGRAM.
"That an Alfred Hitchcock picture strangles you with suspense as if it were slowly pulling a cord around your throat, is not news. His devices for audience enthrallment have grown more opulent as they have become less ingenious." AGER, PM.
Four Stars ... Grand entertainment that holds the audience spellbound from its opening gambit to its heart-throbbing finish ... Sleek and romantic a thriller as the screen has seen in many months." CAMERON, N. Y. DAILY NEWS.
"A complete example of Hollywood's best, standard film manufacture ... A perfect picture of its kind. Will delight a much larger number of people than a greater film would." WINSTEN.
