Notorious Blu-ray

Release Year: 1946

Runtime: 103 min

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin

Studios: RKO Radio Pictures, Vanguard Films

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Special Features:

New 4K digital restoration

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

Audio commentaries from 1990 and 2001

featuring film historian Rudy Behlmer and Alfred Hitchcock scholar Marian Keane.

New interview

with Hitchcock biographer Donald Spoto.

New program

about the film’s visual style with cinematographer John Bailey.

New scene analysis

by film scholar David Bordwell.

Once Upon a Time . . . 'Notorious,'

a 2009 documentary about the film featuring actor Isabella Rossellini; filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich, Claude Chabrol, and Stephen Frears; and others.

New program about Hitchcock’s storyboarding and previsualization process

by filmmaker Daniel Raim.

Newsreel footage from 1948

of actor Ingrid Bergman and Hitchcock.

Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Notorious from 1948

starring Bergman and Joseph Cotten.

Trailers and teasers

PLUS: An essay by critic Angelica Jade Bastién

Technical Specifications:

• 4K digital restoration
• Uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• 1.37:1 aspect ratio