Marnie

An under-rated film of Hitchcocks, and easily Tippi Hedren's best performance. The film is sometimes criticised for its matte backgrounds and other simplistic effects, but there is a clear relationship with German expressionistic cinema here. The script is excellent and the acting is equally good (although Sean Connery is possibly the weakest of the cast) This is not in the grand canon of Hitchcock's work (Vertigo, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest) but its right behind it, in there with Frenzy, Topaz, Torn Curtain and Psycho. And the shooting the horse scene, with Hedron's despairingly comforting line "There.....there...." is classic.

Marni (Tippi Hedren) does the crime (grand theft), but wants nothing to do with marriage and/or sex. She is however, blackmailed into both by Mark (Sean Connery), a wealthy publisher, who discovers Marni's errants ways. Smitten, but puzzled by the extreme frigidity of the icy thief, he assumes, as naturally any man would, that the problem lies with his wife, not him. Well, in this case, he's right! Come on, folks! 'Tis the smoldering Sean Connery we are dealing with! And yet, Marni approaches the prospect of their wedding night with slightly less cheer then a year-long Gulag sentence might have inspired... The twisted events that follow lead to the neat solution of this psychological puzzle, but even then they do not guarantee a happy ending for the newly married. Though the batteries supplying this odd couple with their on-screen electricity have yet to run out, the naive treatment of psychological disorders dates the 45 year old film significantly. However, once you allow you... Read more

Loved the movie both lead characters are favorite of mine,its great to connect with them again.

This film is extremely powerful because it centers on a woman who obviously has a problem, not an accident but a problem. We know very fast she is having many identities and that her main objective in the jobs she gets with her charm more than her references is to steal the cash from the firm's safe and leave. We understand she is taking care of a mother of hers with that money more than of herself. One man, one of his employers, officially the fifth one, will though go through the surface and discover who she really is, but he falls in love with her and, being a sort of anthropologist (zoologist is the word he uses, isn't it?) and psychologist, he is fascinated by her criminal personality and her fears and he decides to get her out of both. He has to bring her back to the trauma she lived when a small child and confront her with her own mother and the truth. And she is finally liberated from the fear caused by the absence of conscious memory of her crime at the time. I won't say more ... Read more

A very good character study of a frigid, kleptomaniac with a love triangle thrown in to boot. Tippi Hedren is much better in this one than in "The Birds".

Marnie starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery is a deeply disturbing drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Hedren is completely captivating in the title-role, she is so much more effective in this film than The Birds. I won't give away the ending but expect a creepy and complexed climax. This movie isn't considered a Hitchcock classic but it's definitely worth a viewing, enjoy!