Notorious 1992 Directed by Colin Bucksey
After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by getting close to her father's friend, who's a suspected arms dealer. In the meantime she and her CIA contact Devlin fall in love.
John Shea Igor De Savitch Jenny Robertson Jean-Pierre Cassel Marisa Berenson Paul Guilfoyle Ronald Guttman Jean-Pierre Stewart Albert Pariente Marc Samuel Stephan Meldegg Bill Bailey Laurence Bouvencourt Dominique Figaro Isabelle Lazard Alan Rossett Jesse Joe Walsh David Gasman Deirdre Harrison Thomas Russell Haytham Sharairi Karen Strassman Michael Morris
BONUS: 'Notorious' [1992]
Source: YouTube [streaming]
Filed under 'Why did they bother?' is this 1992 TV movie remake of Hitchcock's 'Notorious', utilising the same screenplay. Jenny Robertson (looking like Gillian Anderson's younger sister) is Alicia and John Shea ('Lois & Clark's' Lex Luthor) is Devlin. Neither fill the giant shoes of the originals, of course, though Robertson gets to play more sexily than the 1940s would have allowed.
The plot rarely veers from the original, though the setting is moved to Paris rather than Rio, and now we're hunting Commies not Nazis. In another nod to more modern times, it's Devlin who gets slapped around in the car early on, not Alicia and, like the remake of 'Suspicion', the film decides…
You know what Hitchcock missed the boat on when making the original film? Guitar licks. And shots of the American flag.
This unforgivable slab of rotten shit dares to not only remake Hitchcock's sublime Notorious with a cast of useless nobodies, but has said nobodies walk past a cinema playing Rebecca, thereby raping Hitchcock's legacy twice. Classy.
This cheap, pointless and excerable remake has a talentless dolt in the Ingrid Bergman role and a guy who looks like Warren Beatty's brain-deficient cousin in the Cary Grant role. It's like remaking Casablanca with Pauly Shore and Tara Reid as the leads, with Rob Schneider in the Claude Rains role. There is no spark between the leads, an anti-charisma that's amplified by dire directorial choices, flat cinematography and ugly production design. Plus we have a clumsy script that has been updated for the…
You know what Hitchcock missed the boat on when making the original film? Guitar licks. And shots of the American flag.
BONUS: 'Notorious' [1992]
Source: YouTube [streaming]
Filed under 'Why did they bother?' is this 1992 TV movie remake of Hitchcock's 'Notorious', utilising the same screenplay. Jenny Robertson (looking like Gillian Anderson's younger sister) is Alicia and John Shea ('Lois & Clark's' Lex Luthor) is Devlin. Neither fill the giant shoes of the originals, of course, though Robertson gets to play more sexily than the 1940s would have allowed.
The plot rarely veers from the original, though the setting is moved to Paris rather than Rio, and now we're hunting Commies not Nazis. In another nod to more modern times, it's Devlin who gets slapped around in the car early on, not Alicia and, like the remake of 'Suspicion', the film decides…
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