The heat that Hitchcock in Notorious brought to the extra-long kiss between Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in his romantic noir about spies infiltrating a ring of Nazis in Brazil.
Finding a crack in the three-second-maximum ruling of the Production Code (PCA), the director had his actors break off multiple times during their two and a half minutes of locking lips. He punctuated the scene with dialogue, nuzzling, a head resting on a shoulder, even a phone call.
Bergman’s Alicia talks about “a chicken in the icebox” and “a nice bottle of wine,” but it’s the desire these two have for each other that matters.
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