Notorious

There is a wine bar in downtown Winston-Salem called 6th and Vine. In addition to a healthy wine menu, it had one of the region's earlier "better beer menus", but hasn't really kept up with the deluge of craft beer flooding our state. Years ago? A great beer menu. Today? Meh. But be that as it may, the point of the dinner here was in fact a movie. A movie? Yup. Dinner and a movie outside on their patio. Every Wednesday, a film. The theme for the month of May? Alfred Hitchcock. The most recent screening? Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains in the 1946 film Notorious.

It's an oldie, and here on the HofG there's always a trailer (I do so love a good trailer), so I was surprised to dig up a proper trailer on the internets. Enjoy:



"A mad adventure fraught with bold intrigue!"

During the post-WWII German roundup, those with Nazi sympathies are tried for treason. One particularly voluptuous and, ahem, engaging woman's father suffers such a fate, and she is heavied into doing undercover work for the U.S. government down in Brazil. Get "on the inside" with German businessman Alex Sebastian and find out what the devil he is up to. Scientists, plots, mysterious keepings in the locked wine cellar and the quest for its key are all unearthed until....her cover is blown and she's suspected of being an American agent. Will she be eliminated? Will she be rescued? Whatever is to become of the Nazi's in Rio, and what of their plot?

Enjoyable. A Hitchcock film I wasn't all that well-versed in, and after seeing it, can declare it wasn't all that suspenseful nor intriguing for me. An easy Matinee rating for me though.