Notorious

Notorious

Margaret Cho is an NC-17 woman in a PG-13 world. Very, very little can be quoted from this concert film, as can be expected from a woman who, in the film's empowering conclusion, sounds the rallying cry to live "without restraint." Leave it to Cho to reference September 11 with a joke that is at once profane and respectful. Like Richard Pryor, the Korean-American outlaw comedian has found her niche with concert films that allow her the freedom to be her "actual self." She riffs unabashedly about relationships gone sour and relates her experiences as a sexual Captain Kirk, boldly going where she has never gone before. Notorious, yes, but not as accessible for the uninitiated as her last concert film, I'm the One That I Want, which recounted the rise and fall of her ill-fated sitcom. The faithful, though, won't pass up the chance for a private audience with the diva of the disenfranchised. --Donald Liebenson

Production: RKO Radio Pictures
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
NR (Not Rated)
Year:
1946
101
1,277 Views
Notorious woman of affairs... Adventurous man of the world!
Notorious woman of many desires! Fateful fascination! Bold intrigue!
Deep their love! Great the risk!
Electric tension!
The screen's top romantic stars in a melodramatic masterpiece!

Alicia:
You don't think a woman can change?

Devlin:
Sure. But change is fun, for a while.

Alicia:
For a while. What a rat you are Devlin!

Devlin:
All right. You've been sober for eight days. And as far as I know, you've made no new conquests.

Alicia:
Well, that's something.

Devlin:
Eight days. Practically white-washed.

Alicia:
I'm very happy here. Why won't you let me be happy?

Devlin:
No one is stopping you.

Alicia:
Why don't you give that copper's brain of yours a rest? Every time you look at me, I can see it running over its slogans: 'Once a crook, always a crook,' 'Once a tramp, always a tramp.' Go on. You can hold my hand. I won't blackmail you for it afterwards. Scared?

Devlin:
I've always been scared of women, but I'll get over it.

Alicia:
Now you're scared of yourself. You're afraid you'll fall in love with me.

Devlin:
That wouldn't be hard.

Alicia:
Oh now, careful, careful.

Devlin:
You enjoy making fun of me, don't you?

Alicia:
No Dev, I'm making fun of myself. I'm pretending I'm a nice, unspoiled child whose heart is full of daisies and buttercups.

Devlin:
Nice daydream. Then what?

Alicia:
I think I will have another drink.

Devlin:
I thought you'd get around to it.

Alicia:
Make it a double...Why won't you believe in me, Devlin - just a little? Why won't you? I know why you won't, Devlin. You're sore. You're sore because you're falling for a little drunk you've taken in Miami and you don't like it. It makes you sick all over, doesn't it? People will laugh at you. The invincible Devlin, in love with someone who isn't worth even wasting the words on. Poor Dev, in love with a no-good gal. It must be awful. I'm sorry.

Alicia:
What's the matter? Don't look so tense. Troubles? Well handsome, I think you'd better tell Mama what's going on. All this secrecy's going to ruin my little dinner. Come on, Mr. D., what is darkening your brow?

Devlin:
After dinner.

Alicia:
No, now! Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable children and this madness between us can't go on any longer.

Devlin:
I'll bet you've heard that line often enough.

Alicia:
Right below the belt every time. Oh, that isn't fair, Dev.

Devlin:
Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We've got a job.

Alicia:
Oh. So there is a job.

Devlin:
You, uh, you remember a man named Sebastian?

Alicia:
Alex Sebastian?

Devlin:
Yes.

Alicia:
One of my father's friends, yes.

Devlin:
He had quite a crush on you.

Alicia:
I wasn't very responsive.

Devlin:
Well, he's here. The head of a large German business concern.

Alicia:
His family always had money.

Devlin:
He's part of the combine that built up the German war machine and hopes to keep on going.

Alicia:
Something big?

Devlin:
It has all the earmarks of being something big. We have to contact him.

Alicia:
Go on, let's have all of it.

Devlin:
We're meeting him tomorrow. The rest is up to you. You've got to work on him and land him.

Alicia:
Mata Hari. She makes love for the papers.

Devlin:
There are no papers. You land him. Find out what's going on inside his house, what the group around him is up to, and report to us.

Alicia:
I suppose you knew about this pretty little job of mine all the time.

Devlin:
No. I only just found out about it.

Alicia:
You can add Sebastian's name to my list of playmates.

Devlin:
Pretty fast work.

Alicia:
That's what you wanted, wasn't it?

Devlin:
Skip it!..I've been recalling some of your remarks about being a new woman. Daisies and buttercups, wasn't it?

Alicia:
You idiot. What are you sore about? You knew very well what I was doing.

Devlin:
Did I?

Alicia:
You could have stopped me. Just one word. But no, you wouldn't. You threw me at him.

Devlin:
I threw you at nobody.

Alicia:
Didn't you tell me to go ahead?

Devlin:
A man doesn't tell a woman what to do. She tells herself. You almost had me believing in that little hokey-pokey miracle of yours. If a woman like you could ever change her spots.

Alicia:
Oh, you're rotten.

Devlin:
That's why I didn't try to stop you. And the answer had to come from you.

Alicia:
I see. Some kind of love test.

Devlin:
That's right.

Alicia:
Well, you never believed in me anyways so what's the difference.

Devlin:
Lucky for both of us I didn't. It wouldn't have been pretty if I believed in you. If I'd figured: 'She'll never be able to go through with this. She's been made over by love.'

Alicia:
If you only once had said that you loved me. Oh, Dev.

Devlin:
Listen. You chalked up another boyfriend. That's all. No harm done.

Alicia:
I hate you.

Devlin:
There's no occasion to. You're doing good work. Number 10's out in front. It looks as if Sebastian knows how to pick 'em.

Alicia:
Is that all you have to say to me?

Devlin:
Dry your eyes baby. It's out of character. Keep on your toes. There's a tough job around. Snap out of it. Here comes dreamboat.

Devlin:
Alicia, Alicia, Alicia. What's wrong with you?

Alicia:
I'm so glad you came.

Devlin:
I had to. I couldn't stand anymore waiting and worrying about you. It wasn't a hangover you had that day. You were sick then. What is it?

Alicia:
Yes, I was sick.

Devlin:
What's wrong with you, Alicia?

Alicia:
Oh Dev.

Devlin:
What is it, dear? What's wrong with you?

Alicia:
They're poisoning me. I couldn't get away from them. I tried but I was too weak.

Devlin:
How long?

Alicia:
Since the party. Alex and his mother found out.

Devlin:
Come on, try to sit up. Sit up. I've got to get you out of here.

Alicia:
I thought you had gone.

Devlin:
No. I had to see you once and speak my peace. I was getting out because I love you. I couldn't bear seeing you and him together.

Alicia:
Oh, you love me. Why didn't you tell me this before?

Devlin:
I know. But I couldn't see straight or think straight. I was a fatheaded guy full of pain. It tore me up not having you.

Alicia:
Oh you love me. You love me.

Devlin:
Long ago. All the time. Since the beginning...Come on, try to sit up.

Alicia:
Oh Dev. I'm afraid I-I can't make it because they gave me pills to sleep.

Devlin:
Keep awake. Keep talking...

Alicia:
They didn't want the others to know about me.

Devlin:
Keep talking. Come on, what happened? What happened?

Alicia:
Alex found out.

Devlin:
And the others haven't?

Alicia:
They'd kill him if they knew. They killed Emil.

Devlin:
Are you in pain?

Alicia:
I don't know - the pills...Say it again, it keeps me awake.

Devlin:
I love you. Stand up. Stand up. Come on, wake up. Talk!


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