And it’s waiting to be discovered on Max.
Not only is the film, about an espionage plot between an American agent, T.R.
Audiences were not meant to care about the MacGuffin, which was a case of uranium.
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However, one party found the MacGuffin anything but frivolous.
The U.S. government and its team of expert physicists had a different relationship to the rare element.
“The director worked closely with Ben Hecht to conceive of a suitable MacGuffin.
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They knew Alicia needed to infiltrate a camp of German scientists in South America while accompanied by Devlin.
To simplify plot motivations down to something visual and concrete, they landed on a cache of uranium.
Furthermore, he even received intel during pre-production that a certain confidential scientific operation was underway in New Mexico.
They asked the scientist, “How large would an atom bomb be?”
The scientist was alarmed.
“You want to have yourselves arrested and have me arrested as well?
They were paying admission for the double-billing of Grant and Bergman.
Notoriousis available to stream on Tubi in the United States.
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