Marnie

7/17/19642h 10m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The more he loved her . . . The more she hated him . . . For trying to unravel her secret! ~

Overview:

Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his fascination turns to obsession, and he blackmails her into marriage, convinced he can cure her. But as he probes deeper into Marnie’s fractured mind, long-buried fears and compulsions begin to surface.

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$2,135,000.00

Revenue:

$7,000,000.00

Key words:

prostitute
rape
philadelphia, pennsylvania
sexual abuse
post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
chase
sexual frustration
clerk
horseback riding
suicide attempt
in love with enemy
blackmail
horse race
fetish
lie
women's sexual identity
new identity
kleptomania
baltimore, usa
horse
frigidity
honeymoon
riding accident
cruise
psychology
self-defense
fetishism
cowardliness
man saves troubled woman

Cast

Tippi Hedren

~ as ~

Marnie Edgar

Sean Connery

~ as ~

Mark Rutland

Diane Baker

~ as ~

Lil Mainwaring

Martin Gabel

~ as ~

Sidney Strutt

Louise Latham

~ as ~

Bernice Edgar

Bob Sweeney

~ as ~

Cousin Bob

Milton Selzer

~ as ~

Man at Track

Mariette Hartley

~ as ~

Susan Clabon

Alan Napier

~ as ~

Mr. Rutland

Bruce Dern

~ as ~

Sailor

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 5 year(s) ago
9
The idea was to kill myself, not feed the damn fish.

Sometimes cited as the last decent Hitchcock film, Marnie actually should be regarded as one of the maestro's best films full stop! A swirling mysterious tale of repressed sexuality and traumatic falsehoods, Marnie to me is one of Hitch's more accomplished works.

Tippi Hedren is Marnie, a woman who is both a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar, but her problems are more deep rooted than the surface ones we see. Sean Connery is Mark Rutland, he catches Marnie out for robbing the safe at his company and we then follow the two on a journey to get to the bottom of the demons that are gnawing away at Marnie - to the point that flashes of red and the touch of Mark send her into terrified panic.

With bleak back drops and fluctuating climate conditions, Hitchcock pulls the audience into Marnie's troubled psyche, and with Hedren's perfectly tense and wrought performance fittingly snug, the film delivers the goods for a fine Hitchcock viewing. As usual some scenes are priceless Hitch, a nightmare sequence with a tapping hand at the window hits the mark, while a scene involving a horse thumps the emotive heart and steers the film towards the special finale.

Top stuff all round from the master director. 9/10