Guest Host: Margaret Carlson

Screening Time: Sunday, May 4, 1:30 PM

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Reinhold Schunzel

Country: U.S.
Year: 1946
Running Time: 101 minutes
Format: 35mm

Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant. What else do you need to know? Keep reading if you want to. This is a film that Roger Ebert says is “the most elegant expression of the master's visual style,”and it “assures Ingrid Bergman’s immortality. ” More? Okay: Hitchcock tells a tale specifically set in 1946 (check out the opening graphic) of Alicia (Bergman), known to be a drinker and promiscuous, who is recruited by Devlin (Cary Grant) to spy on Sebastian (Claude Rains), a suspected Nazi agent and former lover of Alicia’s. Most of it take place in Rio, and everything is so soignée you’ll feel underdressed watching it. Don’t worry if the sound goes off, Margaret Carlson knows all the dialogue. Oh, and look for Hitchcock drinking champagne at Sebastian’s party.

--Jed Dietz

Presented By: Margaret Carlson

Margaret Carlson currently appears as a panelist on the CNN political programs Inside Politics and The Capital Gang as well as being on staff at TIME Magazine. She joined TIME in January 1988 from The New Republic, where she was managing editor, and in 1994 became the first woman columnist in the magazine’s history. She has covered the last four presidential elections for the magazine and her journalism career has included stints as Washington bureau chief for Esquire magazine, editor of Washington Weekly, and editor of the Legal Times of Washington. She recently published her first book, Anyone Can Grow Up: How George Bush and I Made It to the White House, with Simon and Schuster.