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The Chained
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With this Les Enchaînés Poster, add Hitchcock's touch of mystery and detective atmosphere to your interior decoration!
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Description of this Les Enchaînés Poster
The Bound is a 1946 American film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intertwined during a spy operation.
The film follows U.S. government agent TR Devlin (Grant), who enlists the help of Alicia Huberman (Bergman), the daughter of a German war criminal, to infiltrate a circle of IG Farben executives who hid in Rio de Janeiro after World War II. The situation becomes complicated when the two women fall in love and Huberman is ordered to seduce Alex Sebastian (Rains), a Farben executive who had previously been infatuated with her. The film was filmed in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946.
The Bound is considered by critics and scholars to be a watershed for Hitchcock artistically, and to represent increased thematic maturity. His biographer, Donald Spoto, writes that "The Bound is actually Alfred Hitchcock's first attempt - at the age of forty-six - to put his talent to work in creating a serious love story, and its story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this point in her life."[4] In 2006, The Chained was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
In April 1946, Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted Nazi spy, is recruited by government agent TR Devlin to infiltrate an organization of Nazis who escaped to Brazil after World War II. When Alicia refuses to help the authorities, Devlin plays her tapes of her arguing with her father and insisting that she loves America.
While awaiting details of his mission to Rio de Janeiro, Alicia and Devlin fall in love, although his feelings are complicated by knowledge of his promiscuous past. When Devlin is ordered to persuade her to seduce Alex Sebastian, a friend of her father's and an important member of Farben's management, Devlin fails to convince his superiors that Alicia is not suited for the job. Devlin is also informed that Sebastian was once in love with Alicia. Devlin is stoic when he informs Alicia of the mission. Alicia concludes that he was just pretending to like her as part of his job.
Devlin arranges for Alicia to meet Sebastian at a riding club. He recognizes her and invites her to dinner where he tells her that he always knew they would be reunited. Sebastian quickly invites Alicia to dinner the following evening at his house, where he will receive some business acquaintances. Devlin and Captain Paul Prescott of the United States Secret Service tell Alicia to memorize the names and nationalities of everyone present. During dinner, Alicia notices a guest becoming agitated at the sight of a certain bottle of wine, and is quickly kicked out of the room. When the gentlemen are alone at the end of the dinner, this guest excuses himself and tries to go home, but another insists on giving him a ride, implying that he will kill him.
Soon, Alicia reports to Devlin: "You can add Sebastian's name to my list of playmates." When Sebastian proposes to her, Alicia informs Devlin; he coldly tells her to do what she wants. Deeply disappointed, she marries Sebastian.
After returning from her honeymoon, Alicia is able to tell Devlin that the set of keys her husband gave her does not contain the key to the wine cellar. This, and the bottle episode at dinner, leads Devlin to ask Alicia to throw a big party so he can investigate. Alicia secretly steals the key to Sebastian's ring, and Devlin and Alicia search the cellar. Devlin accidentally breaks a bottle; inside is black sand, which later turns out to be uranium ore. Devlin takes a sample, cleans up, and locks the door as Sebastian goes downstairs to get more champagne. Alicia and Devlin kiss to cover their tracks. Devlin makes an exit. Sebastian realizes that the key to the cellar is missing - yet, overnight, it is put back on his key ring. When he returns to the cellar, he finds the glass and sand from the broken bottle.
Sébastien is now faced with a problem: he must silence Alicia, but cannot denounce her without revealing his own blunder to the other Nazi émigrés. When Sebastian discusses the situation with his mother, she suggests that Alicia "die slowly" from poisoning. They poison her coffee and she quickly falls ill. During a visit from Dr. Anderson, a friend of Sebastian's, Alicia realizes both where the uranium has been mined and what is causing her illness. Alicia collapses and is taken to her room, where the phone has been taken and she is too weak to leave.
Devlin becomes alarmed when Alicia doesn't show up for their date for five days and sneaks into Alicia's room, where she tells him that Sebastian and his mother poisoned her. After confessing his love for her, Devlin leads her out of the mansion in full view of Sebastian's co-conspirators. Sebastian and his mother accept Devlin's version that Alicia needs to go to the hospital. Outside, Sebastian begs them to come with him, but Devlin and Alicia leave, leaving Sebastian to his fate.
