This 3 star movie could have been a 4 if it wasn't for a few flaws. 1. I expect to be surprised when watching a Hitchcock movie. This movie was very predictable, and maybe I am too spoiled by Hitchcock's other movies, but there just wasn't a lot of suspense and guessing for the viewer. 2. In the movie Ingrid Bergman works as an American Agent (spy) alongside Cary Grant. Together they steal a key from Claude Rains so that they can go into the wine cellar and look at some stuff. They both know that Claude will be going into the cellar that night, which means he will notice his key is gone from his keychain and he can't get in.
The next morning Bergman slips the key back on his key chain and her and Grant act as if Rains would never know they took it. Of course he would know. It wasn't there when he needed it, and now it was there. So of course he know knows that Bergman is spying on him, and then he starts plotting how to kill her. (The reasons she was in the house is because she married him as a cover up.)
I was disappointed the Hitchcock allowed the mistake in the movie. Bergman and Grant saw Rains try to get into the cellar, they obviously knew that he would look for the key and not find it. HELLO PEOPLE. If you are going to steal someone's key, do it when they don't need it and put it back before they notice. It was funny to me that Grant and Bergman thought they got away with it.
Aside from that, the movie is fun to watch. This is a younger Bergman and Grant was already a star by 1946.
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It seems unexcusable that Hitchcock would allow for this kind of lapse in storyline. I still think I want to see this because of Hitchcock, Grant, and Bergman. Thanks for the review and heads up.
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