Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Notorious's strength is that its suspense makes us shout at the screen. A film with more kiss kiss than bang bang, Hitchcock once again demonstrates that often it is what we do not see, but rather anticipate, that makes us terrified. This is a lesson that modern action directors should have learned from Hitchcock and films like Jaws, but they seem to have cast this aside for an excess of bang bang. Christopher Nolan's Inception is a good candidate for a film that suffers from constant gunplay.
This is a film that suffers from not being shot on location. I think of it as an American The Third Man - but of course, The Third Man was filmed in Vienna, and uses that to wonderful effect.
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