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Notorious (1946)
Nominated for the Academy Award for screenplay and supporting actor.
One of the strongest romantically themed film's in Hitchcock's library. The romance that builds between the lead characters is so beautiful, in fact, that one nearly forgets the rest of the subplots in the end. The story is about a secret agent and the woman that he is using to get information from.
She has, for the interest of the United States government, rekindled a previous relationship with a Nazi operating out of South America. She reports her findings to her true lover and contact. When the Nazi starts to suspect her as a spy, he has no other option but to kill her. But he can't just up and murder her or his superiors will suspect him too of treason.
So he, and his wicked mother, poison her slowly with arsenic. From there it's secret agent to the rescue in one of the strongest and memorable scenes of the film. Or any other film for that matter.
Truly wonderful filmmaking.
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
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