Spellbound

May. 4th, 2014 03:46 pm
lonemagpie: robot maria (robot maria)
Stepping back a year from Notorious, but sticking with Hitchcock directing from a Ben Hecht script…




I'm not sure whether the introduction of Ingrid Bergman, being sexually harrassed by a colleague, is an appalling indictment of the culture, or hilarious pwnage as she just laughs in his face and takes the piss out of him. This being Bergman, I'm inclined towards the latter...

Also, it's a bit, influenced, shall we say, by Pabst's 1926 Geheimnisse eine Seele (Secrets Of A Soul), isn't it?

Notorious

May. 2nd, 2014 02:46 pm
lonemagpie: Bogie! (bogie)
Today's background movie- Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious. Here we have a spy movie with a love triangle between Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains.

Actually Studio chief David O Selznick wanted Joseph Cotten as the hero, but Hitch held out for Grant. In return, Selznick made Hitch drop his preference of Clifton Webb for the villain, and give us the Rains magic. So the right people ended up cast...

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