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A Very Strange Love Affair: Hitchcock’s “Notorious” Turns 80

RogerEbert.com·Oct 21, 2026 · 8:00 AM CT
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RogerEbert.com revisits Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" at 80. The essay looks at how Hitchcock pitched it as the story of a woman sold into sexual enslavement for political purposes, and at its portrayal of Nazis living among ordinary people just a year after WWII.

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