The more he loved her . . . The more she hated him . . . For trying to unravel her secret!
Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities.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.
- Sexual violence
- Suicide or self-harm
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- John Chardon TMDB · Aug 20209/10
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 t
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Cast
- Tippi HedrenMarnie Edgar
- Sean ConneryMark Rutland
- Diane BakerLil Mainwaring
- Martin GabelSidney Strutt
- Louise LathamBernice Edgar
- Bob SweeneyCousin Bob
- Milton SelzerMan at Track
- Mariette HartleySusan Clabon
- Alan NapierMr. Rutland
- Bruce DernSailor
Crew
- Alfred HitchcockDirector
- Jay Presson AllenScreenplay
- Winston GrahamNovel
- Robert BurksDirector of Photography
- Bernard HerrmannOriginal Music Composer
- George TomasiniEditor
- Alfred HitchcockProducer
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