While the leads are excellent and there is sufficient suspense, this one of Hitchcock's lacks both a sense of humour which marks much of his best work and feeling.

Every movie era had one of those actors or actresses that were simply overrated and the golden age of Hollywood wasn't much of an exception with Ingrid Bergmann. Her role as a spy for the Nazi friends in Latin America in „Notorious" is one of those interpretations that should have shown her entire potential as an actress, but failed to do so. Everything else, the script, the supporting cast (especially Grant) and the finale of the entire movie will also follow that trail. „Rebecca" is by far, the weakest flick Alfred Hitchcock made in his fascinating career.

Beautiful casting of Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. The chemistry they share in this film feels so natural and at points made me tear up a little. The music by Roy Webb carries the drama that is Notorious. The film itself was beautifully pictured, kudos to Ted Tetzlaff the Cinematographer. Each shot of every scene had reasoning for its angle. The deep space cinematography taken place to show Alicia's fate told us as an audience what she hadn't quite caught on to yet, poison. The film never drags on or doesn't hold the status for a great Hitchcock film. In fact, I feel as though it may have been his greatest masterpiece made!

At first I was not overly thrilled by this movie - the concept was interesting enough, and the actors were all great, but I found the pacing to be somewhat slow at first. However, when it got to the party scene, I instantly became much more interested - the suspense in the scene was so palpable you could cut it with a knife. After that, the movie just got better and better.The acting is great in this movie. Grant, Bergman, and Claude Rains all play their parts well, but German actress Leopoldine Konstantin especially stands out - she plays the mother of Alexander Sebastian, and although her role isn't the largest, every scene with her is wonderfully sinister. Her and Rains' performance in the ending is also great - you can almost taste their fear.