Movie Moments: Notorious

In Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious, Ingrid Bergman - in cahoots (and in love) with Cary Grant - is spying on her shady businessman husband Claude Raines. She must sneak his key to a suspiciously locked door away from him and pass it on to Grant during a party thrown at their house.

Grant, watching Bergman from a landing above, sees the key hidden in her hand. Hitchcock and cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff accomplished this cinematically with a camera dolly that swoops down from Grant's point-of-view all the way down to a close-up of the key clutched in Bergman's hand below.

Years later, Bergman presented the "UNICA key" (so called due to the lock manufacturer) to Hitchcock at his AFI Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony.

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