Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American political comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart, and featuring Claude Rains and Edward Arnold.
 The film is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story "The Gentleman from Montana".
 The film was controversial when it was first released, but was also successful at the box office, and made Stewart a major movie star.
Mystery of Edwin Drood is a 1935 American mystery-drama film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Claude Rains in the role of the villainous John Jasper.
 It is the third film adaptation and first sound film version of Charles Dickens's unfinished novel of the same name.
 Filmed by Universal Pictures, it co-stars Douglass Montgomery and Valerie Hobson (the future Estella of David Lean's 1946 "Great Expectations"), and featured David Manners as Edwin Drood.
 Stuart Walker had previously directed a little-known 1934 film adaptation of "Great Expectations".
 The film's script provides an ending to the original unfinished novel, solving the mystery of the fate of Edwin Drood.
Rope of Sand is a 1949 adventure-suspense film noir produced by Hal Wallis and directed by William Dieterle.
 Set in South West Africa, the film stars Wallis contract star Burt Lancaster and three stars from Wallis's "Casablanca"; Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre.
 The film introduces Corinne Calvet, and features Sam Jaffe, John Bromfield and Kenny Washington in supporting roles.
 Desert portions of the film were shot in Yuma, Arizona.
They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 American Warner Bros. drama crime film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids.
 It is a remake of the 1933 film "The Life of Jimmy Dolan".
 The film was later featured in an episode of "Cinema Insomnia".
 Portions of the film were shot in the Coachella Valley, California.
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) is a crime drama film, based on the 1938 novel by Georges Simenon and released in the United Kingdom with an all-European cast, including Claude Rains in the lead role of Kees Popinga, who is infatuated with Michele Rozier (Märta Torén).
 The film was released in the United States in 1953 under the title The Paris Express.
 It was directed by Harold French.
 This was Rains' seventh film in color, his first being "Gold Is Where You Find It" (1938).
Notorious is a 1946 American spy film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains as three people whose lives become intimately entangled during an espionage operation.
 It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946.
The Wolf Man is a 1941 American horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner.
 The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. in the title role, and features Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Béla Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya in supporting roles.
 The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf.
 The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf film, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful "Werewolf of London" (1935).
William Claude Rains (10 November 188930 May 1967) was an English film and stage actor whose career spanned 46 years.
 After his American film debut as Dr. Jack Griffin in "The Invisible Man" (1933) he appeared in classic films like "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "The Wolf Man" (1941), "Casablanca" and "Kings Row" (both 1942), "Notorious" (1946), and "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962).
Frederick William Rains (c. 1860 – 3 December 1945) was a British actor and film director.
 He was the father of the actor Claude Rains.
Moontide is a 1942 American film directed by Archie Mayo, who took over production after initial director Fritz Lang left the project early in the shooting schedule.
 The screenplay was written by John O'Hara and Nunnally Johnson (uncredited) and based on the novel written by Willard Robertson, "Moon Tide" (1940).
 The production features French star Jean Gabin, as well as Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell and Claude Rains.

Question: Which American spy film did Claude Rains star in?
Answer: Notorious