A little bit about the plot. In 1946, an American court sentenced Johann Huberman to twenty years in prison as a German spy for treason. His daughter Alicia meets at a party with FBI agent Devlin, who receives a task from the leadership to solve a Nazi conspiracy in Rio de Janeiro. By the way, not the best script for a Hitchcock movie. No, so to speak, a good basis for a thriller.
You always expect something different from this master’s films. Okay, I can understand that his masterpieces, such as Psycho, Backyard Window, Vertigo, and so on, have not yet come out, but there was already an amazing screenplay film Rebecca, although there was no such brilliant actor duet, but the script there was simply magnificent. Alas, the opposite is true here. But I don’t mean to say that the script is terrible. The plot is quite good, but not for the Hitchcock film.
Again, not the best movie for Cary Grant. I will not list all of his outstanding roles before this, usually comedy genre, but here he did not show all his acting skills, although the role was not particularly dusty, because all attention was focused on the female role, which was very well played by Ingrid Bergman. Although again it is impossible to avoid comparison with her wonderful role in the film “Casablanca”, but still very, very good, especially at the end of the film.
Again, I can’t avoid comparing it to other Hitchcock films. Of course not all, but many are much better, but for another director, a smaller caliber, it would definitely be a success.
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